Sara Gilbert Quotes

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment …. The welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative.

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society — from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

I'm creating my own future.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?