Natalie Maines Quotes

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing.

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.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

I don't spend my time perusing message boards to find out what people think about me or if people think my songs are good or if people love that lyric or this or that. I just want to be happy with it myself - and if other people like it, that's great.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.