Maria Shriver Quotes

When I go out and talk to people about how unique they are as a human being and that there's a niche for them that they need to follow through on for their lives, it's what I truly believe in.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.