Leonor Varela Quotes

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I am very into making up my own rules.

Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I would rather just do the things I want to do.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

We must know our limitations and expend our lives only in the cause of our independence.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.