Alexander Lowen Quotes

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

I want an identity outside of my work.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I've always been a focused person who knows how to get what I want.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

I am too ambitious to get into a relationship.

If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance;/You must stir it and stump it, /And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

I always think of myself as a working girl.

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

My expectations on myself exceed any of those put on me.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More to learn. More responsibility to take on.

My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.

The focus to me was always just being the best that we can be. Just being trendsetters and only focusing on us.