Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

Be yourself, be an individual - people are scared to be themselves.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

No matter where you are in life, you'll save a lot of time by not worrying too much about what other people think about you. The earlier in your life that you can learn that, the easier the rest of it will be.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

I have to be myself.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what's actually real. Once you get there, it's kind of hard to double back.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

I want my future wife or girlfriend to be herself.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there'll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they're your own.