Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I only do what I like to do.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

I will act because I enjoy it.

But what I do I do because I like to do.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

I don't want to rely on what people say about me to feel good; playing's what I really enjoy.

I don't want to, I don't plan my career based on what I want people to believe I'm capable of doing. So I just take things that I think might be good or might be fun to do or might ultimately entertain.

I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Being free is a state of mind.

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.