Ralph Lauren Quotes

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

For this album I was determined to do it my way. Take my time. I'm gonna win, lose or draw on my own.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

You always knows what's best for you.

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

I know what is best for me.

I believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the nature of how I'm writing. I'm just able.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

I will offer a choice, not an echo.