Ken Buck Quotes

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

One creates oneself.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

You're born a certain way, but you don't gotta die like that.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I do believe in self-help.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.