Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You can not live your life just based on what everyone else thinks.

If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading.

Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Children have their own mind.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.