Scott Snyder Quotes

I don't have a role model.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

My father did not do a film for me or launched me, he wanted us to do things on our own.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Once I got to the age where I was like, "I could just do it by myself," they was like, "Go do it."

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

We each need to become our own hero.

What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.