Jeremy Hunt Quotes

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.

Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

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?

If I need something, I'll invent it.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.