Jerry Gillies Quotes

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

One creates oneself.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

I just know what I want for myself.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.