Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father wished I was.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

You need to be your own individual.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I enjoy making the decisions.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

I can't give up my own identity.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I am definitely an individual.