Kevyn Aucoin Quotes

Get advice, then make your own decision.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

Individual liberty and responsibility involve the right of private judgment; this involves the right to all the light necessary to form a correct judgment.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.

The real man of intelligence will not cling to any ideology - for what? He will not carry a load of readymade answers. He knows that he has enough intelligence so that whatever situation arises, he will be able to respond to it. Why carry an unnecessary load from the past? What is the point of carrying it?

The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.