John Sculley Quotes

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

What I would tell girls coming up is just be yourself and don't let people get in the way.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

I don't care what people think of me or for what reason they think of me. I don't feel like I don't know who I am to the degree that I have to change my hair to create a new me.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.