Quotes About Independence

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

Try this! throw one stone in the air and think. This stone could only consider itself to be free, if it could forget the hand that hath thrown it. I will share a secret of bob marley and I reasonings with you. Listen, he sang, no chains around my feet, yet I'm not free!. Where, and from whom do you think he got that?

Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.

If they ignore us, well . . . then, maybe we'll just ignore them right back.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities ?I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

you have to do something for yourself. The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness. You got to work for it.

So here they are, a gaggle of highly skilled and utterly unique actresses whose pre-feminist strength and independence were awesome to behold. Whether with gags, glares or gats, they railed, they ranted, they raved, they rode roughshod. They ruled.

It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do, as the Declaration of Independence put it, is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's byproduct of achievement.

If a corporation has two executives who think alike, one of them is unnecessary" Reply to a student at a management seminar 1973 when asked if all his managers were required to share his conservative view. (Quoted in John F. Love's book "McDonald's behind the golden arches", p87)

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

To my mind, if you don't know anything about the lives of the people you meet then they will be inclined to treat you like a child, but if you can hunt, if you can make fire, if you can make shelter and you know how to take care of yourself, they see this; they know the time it takes to acquire those skills and they will treat you as an adult. From that, they might involve you in conversations that you would not otherwise have. That is what I wanted to try to tap into. I

It's so important to step outside your comfort zone because that's usually when you learn best. I think it's really important that you do things like that for yourself – no adult with you, just you and your own self-belief. Sadly, I think many parents would be too afraid to let their children make a journey like that these days. Having

The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.

In the American mind, the outcome of the Revolution has always overshadowed the event itself.