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Your Quotes

On staying in control of what's truly your own.

These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.

As long as you’re keeping your body active though, it doesn’t have to be a long session at the gym to be effective.

Quotes by Dianne Buswell

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Quotes by Dianne Reeves

The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.

Quotes by Dianne Reeves

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Quotes by Dick Cavett

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Quotes by Dick Cavett

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

Quotes by Diane Greene

When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.

Quotes by Diane Greene

When you're the child of undocumented immigrants, you learn to keep your mouth shut.

Quotes by Diane Guerrero

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

Quotes by Diane Lane

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

Quotes by Diane Paulus

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.

Quotes by Diane Paulus

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

Quotes by Diane Sawyer

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

With 'American Idol,' you are on your toes a lot. People don't realize the amount of work.

Quotes by Diana DeGarmo

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

Quotes by Diana Krall

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Quotes by Diana Nyad

There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

Quotes by Diana Rigg

When a relationship ends, all you can do is play in your head everything that happened between you.

Quotes by Diana Silvers

It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

Quotes by Dexter Filkins

Frequently Asked Questions

What themes come up across these "Your" quotes?
The quotes touch on trusting others with your personal information, translating your own plans into words, feelings tied to a specific record, and a sharp, personal comparison involving self-esteem.
Is there a quote about privacy or trust?
Yes, one reflects on cryptography and not needing to trust others because encrypting your files gives you control over "whether you would surrender" that trust.
Is there a quote here referencing a real public figure?
Yes: "Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem" makes a pointed comparison using Milosevic's name.
Does this page talk about turning plans into action?
Yes, one quote explains a dislike of outlines and treatments, noting that writing your plan down on paper can make it "very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better" with them. For more on persistence and ambition, see Know or Always.
Is there anything here about music or personal records?
Yes, one quote describes a record as feeling "innocent," tied to being young enough not to fully grasp the weight of your own decisions. For more reflective, first-person lines, see Life or Like.

Related themes continue in our Always quotes and Life quotes, both about staying grounded in your own choices.