Jennifer Hyman Quotes

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?

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

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

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

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

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

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'

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'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

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

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

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

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

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

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