Stan Sakai Quotes

All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.

I think you create your own boundaries, and you work within them.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I do what I want.