Quotes About Independence

They are left alone to do as they please, provided of course that their results satisfy the executives.

He can work any hours he likes, travel at a whim, and engage in all manner of personal pursuits.

The question is: what would you like to be, a dog or a wolf?

The original Aramaic version had a wild ass, instead of a wolf, showing off his freedom. But the wild ass ends up eaten by the lion. Freedom entails risks—real skin in the game. Freedom is never free.

the further from headquarters an employee is located, the more autonomous his unit, the more you want him to be a slave so he does nothing strange on his own.

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

Freedom entails risks—real skin in the game. Freedom is never free.

Una heurística sobre si tienes el control de tu vida: ¿puedes echarte siestas?

De niño había sido un poco endeble, y mi padre lo llevaba a caminar a la montaña para robustecerlo, como hacía, por otro lado, con todos nosotros. Mario acumuló un odio sordo por la montaña y, apenas pudo sustraerse al dominio de mi padre, dejó de ir totalmente.

No tienes autoridad!», le gritaba mi padre despertándola por la noche. Pero por otro lado, él también demostró no tenerla, porque Paola continuó paseando durante años con aquel joven bajito, y lo dejó cuando la cosa se apagó sola, poco a poco, como se apaga la luz de una vela.

Se fue a Estados Unidos para meterse bajo el ala de su hermano. Sin embargo, los hermanos no tienen alas. Después de cierta edad te das cuenta de que o te apoyas en tus propias piernas o no hay nada que hacer.

Belong to yourself, then, like me, said Big Tom. That way, when changes come, you'll always be ready to hold your tail high and move along.

Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right." "And you don't like those traits in a woman?" "I do. I didn't know that until I found them.

She was strength and power and so many things he'd pretended for twelve years he didn't miss, didn't need.

Nuestros libros, en cuanto dejan nuestras manos, tienen vida propia.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

My life does not belong to others and I am not here on earth to live up to someone else's expectations.

I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

No one is coming to save me; no one is coming to make life right for me; no one is coming to solve my problems. If I don't do something, nothing is going to get better.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness—that is, the absence of supportive feedback from their social environment.

No one owes me the fulfillment of my wishes.