Harold H. Greene Quotes

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

I don't want to be an opinion anchor.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I have to follow my own vision.

I'm completely free of the ill effects of factional influence.

No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.