Che Guevara Quotes

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

I never wanted to impress anyone nor had to complete my education just so that my parents could allow me to pursue music.

Stephen's belief was that if you were free to do your absolute best work, you would be rewarded. My belief was that if you gave all of yourself to what you believed was right, then that would be enough.

I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

Societal expectations matter little; personal expectations matter tremendously.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.