Frank Pittman Quotes

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of a wolf. I want to be stronger and more independent. I sort of wrote the song for that.

I've had to push myself and I've really matured.

People often ask me, 'Who is your role model?' and it sounds a bit cliche, but I've been trying to be my own model.

I know that I can do myself better than anybody else can.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

I can't change the world. I have to fix me.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.