Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Only the autodidacts are free.
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.
I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'
I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.
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.
I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed rather than self- directed.
I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them.
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.
I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.
I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.
I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.
I'm a loner. I kind of like to be alone and do my work and, you know, be focused on my own things.
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.
I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.
I am always mission driven, and I always ask myself what I want to be working on, what project excites me the most. I figure that out and then find the best place to do that work.
The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive.
My family doesn't interfere in my professional decisions at all.
One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.
