Diana Penty Quotes

I don't like to look at what other players are doing.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

The focus to me was always just being the best that we can be. Just being trendsetters and only focusing on us.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.

I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I'm not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.