Quotes About Independence

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

meaning is never found in relative independence, as in individual words or sentences; rather, it is in a constant state of flux –

Yeah, it's hard, baby It's hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it's hard baby It's hard right down to the very bone It's hard when you're a woman And you find yourself all alone I've been flapping and scrapping And running from door to door You know I've been flapping and scrapping, honey Running from door to door

It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.

When a person can take pleasure in marching in step to a piece of music it is enough to make me despise him. He has been given his big brain only by mistake.

Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I think my blunt and contrary nature helps my science, because I don't simply accept things just because other people believe it

thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.

Critical comments by students should be taken in a friendly spirit," he said. "Accumulation of material should not stifle the student's independence." A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions

Loyalty to a party, Einstein felt, meant surrendering some independence of thought. Such conformity confounded him. "How an intelligent man can subscribe to a party I find a complete mystery

the removal of all royal governments in the colonies. Patriotic

Painting a conventional portrait for a pushy patron did not interest him. Nor did money motivate him. He painted portraits if the subject struck his fancy, such as the Musician, or if a powerful ruler demanded it, as in the case of Ludovico with his mistresses. But he didn't dance to the music of patrons.

Tolerance of free expression and independence of thought, he repeatedly argued, were the core values that Americans, to his delight, most cherished.

You're better off to go out and start your own company and fail than it is to stick at one company for thirty years.

Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.

Steve talked to me a lot about being abandoned and the pain that caused, he said. It made him independent. He followed the beat of a different drummer, and that came from being in a different world than he was born into.

wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere

NeXT, 1988: Freed from the constraints at Apple, he indulged his own best and worst instincts.

Jobs quickly became bored with college. He liked being at Reed, just not taking the required classes.

truths, and he wanted to examine everything himself." Dudman allowed Jobs to audit classes and stay with friends in the dorms even after he stopped paying tuition. "The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting," he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him

The Internet and the personal computer were both born in the 1970s, but they grew up apart from one another.