Quotes About Independent

consciousness has developed the ability to override its genetic instructions and to set its own independent course of action.

The term "autotelic" derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self, and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that is done not with the expectation of some future benefit, but simply because the doing itself is the reward.

When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.

Avoiders have learned to make decisions on their own. As a result, it does not occur to them to include others in the decision-making process. They assess a situation, come to a conclusion, and resolve the problem without ever feeling the need to consult anyone. Those

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Is Imani scared of anyone? How did you describe her to me once? Ah yes. A grande dame who has no time for anyone's bullshit. That is Imani. Raphael wanted to smile. I have always liked her for that.

Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). In

She's subtle and not to be meddled with.

Yoga, because it is focused so much on developing our inner mind rather than keeping up with outer names and forms, is all about independent thinking.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

The independent scientist who is worth the slightest consideration as a scientist has a consecration which comes entirely from within himself: a vocation which demands the possibility of supreme self-sacrifice.

I like the duck-billed platypus Because it is anomalous. I like the way it raises its family Partly birdly, partly mammaly. I like its independent attitude. Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

I was a handful growing up.

Jestem osob? bardzo pow?ci?gliw?, bardzo nie?mia??, obsesyjnie strzeg?c? swojej prywatno?ci i zasadniczo stroni?c? od ludzi. I nie wierz? w mity, zw?aszcza we w?asny.

Is there a logic of history? Is there, beyond all the casual and incalculable elements of the separate events, something that we may call a metaphysical structure of historic humanity, something that is essentially independent of the outward forms — social, spiritual and political — which we see so clearly?

Solo sé una historia. Pero muchas veces, los pequeños fragmentos parecen historias independientes.

The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

The Dadaist movement was born from the despair over the egregious death and destruction of World War I and the zealous nationalism that led to it. The Dadaists' goal, according to an early manifesto, was to "remind the world that there are people of independent minds—beyond war and nationalism—who live for different ideals." After

Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning.

He was self-assured without being cocky, friendly but not pushy, independent but in no way precocious. He was also exceptionally selfreliant, perfectly happy with his own company, and like all only children, very much at ease with adults. At five

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.