Amy Sedaris Quotes

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

Education has always been very important to me. It means you don't have to depend on anyone else.

You can't just wait for everybody to give you approval - you will just be waiting.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

The lockdown, in general, left me with a sense of needing to become more independent and instead of being intimidated, I decided to do the engineering on some of my new releases.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.