L'Wren Scott Quotes

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

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

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

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

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?

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

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've already created my own thing.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

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.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.