Kevin Abstract Quotes

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

I am very into making up my own rules.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.