David Belle Quotes

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

My style is constantly evolving. Style has been something that I think has been the hardest thing for me to come to terms with.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

I'm trying different things, and I'm comfortable with who I am and not afraid of showing my confidence through my style.

A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

When you get to heaven God won't ask you why you weren't more like Billy Graham. He may ask you why you weren't more like you. Get in touch with who you are. Lead with your own unique style. Be yourself and let God use you.

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.