Ian MacKaye Quotes

I always just focus on what my own goals are, and not what anybody else's goals for me are or their expectations. I just know that my family will always be supporting me and my friends and my coaches. And as long as I put in the hard work and know that I'm giving it my best effort, I will always be happy.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

I don't give a damn what people think.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don't feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do.

If I get a gig or I don't get a gig, I really have never, ever, ever cared.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

I worked construction clean-up. I was driving a pickup truck at the age of 14 on a construction site. I loved building and being part of the process. You got to see your work.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

As for what other people think of me, I don't care. I don't care and never have.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I don't care what people think. Not a care in the world.

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Create your own legacy! Be you! Do what you do! Stay focused! Stay positive about whatever goals you want to accomplish! Don't ever let anybody tell you that you can't, because you always can. To this day, I have people trying to discourage me, and telling me I should hang it up. I call them clowns.

I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.

I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.