Quotes About Self-sufficiency

As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.

You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.

You don't need to depend on a label, because you're making that money on your own.

I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.

I haven't had a boyfriend for, like, a hundred years, and I'm at that point where I could really use a guy on a Saturday for about six hours. You know what I mean? Because everything in my apartment is broken.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

It's nobody's responsibility to save me but mine.

He might be my wave, but he wasn't my surfboard. Knowledge and usefulness were all that stood between me and the riptide.

I realize nobody's coming to save me. I must save myself. I must be my own super hero. Although I am open to a sidekick.

Society and the individual are thus interdependent. The one owes its existence to the other. Society owes its existence to human nature, and especially to its lack of self-sufficiency; and the individual owes his existence to society, since he is not self-sufficient. But within this relationship of interdependence, the superiority of the state over the individual manifests itself in various ways;

It has been indicated above that because of its self-sufficiency, the ideal state appears to Plato as the perfect individual, and the individual citizen, accordingly, as an imperfect copy of the state.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

improving designs online for free. His idea soon grew into the Global Village Construction Set, which aims to demonstrate step-by-step how to build from scratch 50 universally useful machines, from tractors, brick makers and 3D printers to sawmills, bread ovens and wind turbines.

life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.

If sharing meant receiving, well and good, but if it was a question of giving, then to hell with it, the Clochemerlins would cry out in chorus. Sad to relate, these bumpkins knew nothing about Hegel or Marx. They each had their little patch of ground inherited from previous generations, their trade secrets handed down from father to son, and they could see no farther.

All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.