Francis Chan Quotes

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

For me, being independent is about being able to express myself exactly how I want to, instead of maximising profits.

All my life, I've had a fear of being told what to say, so I'm not telling people what to think. I'm encouraging them to say what they think.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don't need to get anybody's approval or validation.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

Think your own thoughts.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

I write what I'm interested in.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

I essentially write for myself.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.