Ray Bradbury Quotes

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

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 care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

I never wanted to be a feature - that was never the goal with my music. I didn't want to just live through other people's work.

While I do not want to live my life like Lemmy chose to live his, I can't help but admire the strength and determination it took for Lem to do it all on his own terms and remain true to himself.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

I ain't follow nobody path; I did it my own way. It's just grindin', ya feel me? You just gotta grind.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

My parents [father Lenny Kravitz and Bonet] did exactly what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them not to. Now, as women, we need to continue to do that. Especially in the age of social media, when everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to be influenced.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.