Zoe Kazan Quotes

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.