Chip Conley Quotes

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it.

If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

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

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.