Damon Dash Quotes

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

I am a private human.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

I don't care what people think.

I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.

I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don't care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That's always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.