Do It Yourself Quotes - Page 3

• Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

  Nate Berkus

  Keys, Helping, Projects

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• So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

  John Elkington

  Optimistic, Space, Hopeful

  "John Elkington, the 'Breakthrough Challenge' and tomorrow's bottom line". Interview with Joel Makower, www.greenbiz.com. September 3, 2014.

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• There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Decision, Saying Yes

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

  Richard Norris

  People, Advice, Keep Going

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

  Richie Benaud

  Ears, Whispering, Fields

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• When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Moving, Mind

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• You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

  Tina Yothers

  Guidance, Can Do, Guidance And Direction

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• Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Wall, Cutting, Kissing

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• 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.

  Travis Tritt

  Dog, Writing, House

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Husband, Grandmother, Coats

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• The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

  Michael Stipe

  Rocks, Ethos, Heaven

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.

  L. Tom Perry

  Enduring To The End, Ends, Projects

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• Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!

  John Badham

  Girl, Forget, Impress

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Worry, Age

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

  Lance Armstrong

  Mother, Ifs

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• So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

  Sam Altman

  Hard Work, People, Focus

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• The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Piano, Differences

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• I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

  Laura Benanti

  Opportunity, Phones, Waiting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People ask, 'Why would you cast yourself in your movie?' And, for me, it's more like an achievement that I am now not playing all the parts, you know? Like I was for so long, in all my performances and a lot of my short movies. So, that's where I'm coming from, not out of a kind of actress-y sense of myself. I mean, I don't really see myself as an actress, but more from performance: this is how you make something. You do it yourself. You're in it and you write it. I think I keep doing it that way, 'cause it's my way. It's what makes me feel like I know how to do it.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

  Aleister Crowley

  Privilege, Serious, Savages

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• The decline of institutional Christianity over the last 40 or 50 years has empowered a side of American religion that has always been there. The sort of do-it-yourself, "create your own Jesus" kind of faith. But, the forms that faith takes do have a real reason they are so appealing.

  Ross Douthat

  Jesus, Real, Years

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yourself biosynthetic labs where people are going to be playing with the software of life. We are going to have a new generation of artists that are going to be playing with genomes the way that Blake and Byron used to play with poetry. And when genomes are the new canvas for the artist, we might be able to radically upgrade the human species and the software of the biology of the human species.

  Jason Silva

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Nephew, Musician

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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