Nick Mason Quotes

Carefully avoid all undertakings which depends on others; but let him eagerly pursue that which depends on himself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I like track and field for the simple reason that I determine my own outcome. I don't rely on my coach or the president or the CEO making a decision. I'm kind of like the CEO of my own corporation.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

I lead my life as normal.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can't blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

I'm very independent.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.