Ali Fazal Quotes

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

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.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Life helps those who help themselves.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Do whatever you want to persevere, work for your own things, and do not depend on anyone to be your provider. That way, in the future, you will be all right regardless of the circumstances.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.