Grace VanderWaal Quotes

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

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?

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

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

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

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.

You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

The Frenchman is never at his best unless he is permitted a little personal initiative. He becomes impatient at constant command.

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

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

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.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.