Bill Kurtis Quotes

I'm all about owning your life.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

I take full responsibility for my life and my career.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.

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.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

Take destiny in your own hands.

I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I don't believe in luck. Everything is our doing or undoing. If something doesn't come out right, then as a director, you have to take full responsibility. You can't just say, 'No, I gave this job to the music supervisor. They promised me they would do it, and they didn't do it.' You can't blame anyone else.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I'm not one to fall back into the corner and put my fate in someone else's hands. I tend to believe anyone in my position would do the same thing.