Twinkle Khanna Quotes

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.

I was in special ed, but I felt like I was a caged bird. I felt like I could do better. I made sure I mastered my special ed lessons. I made sure I listened to my teacher. I made sure I did my homework, but I had to do a little extra.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.