Quotes About Independence

Let's Be Pirates!

you just don't want someone else to control a big part of the user experience. People may disagree with me, but I am pretty consistent about that.

Alto: "She's a pistol and has the strongest will of any kid I've ever met. It's like payback.

said. But his father again bent to his will. "He wanted me to promise that I'd never use pot again, but I wouldn't promise." In fact by his senior year he was also dabbling in LSD and hash as well as exploring the mind-bending effects of sleep deprivation. "I

Jobs was often bullied, and in the middle of seventh grade he gave his parents an ultimatum. "I insisted they put me in a different school

His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths. She is one of the smartest

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.

Even before Jobs started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read. This, however, led to some problems once he got to school. "I was kind of bored for the first few years, so I occupied myself by getting into trouble." It also soon became clear that Jobs, by both nature and nurture, was not disposed to accept authority.

Para Leonardo, haber nacido fuera del matrimonio propició que no tuviera que ser enviado a una de las «escuelas de latín» que enseñaban los clásicos y las humanidades a los aspirantes a profesionales y a los comerciantes del Quattrocento.

She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries.

Es importante fomentar la individualidad —decía—, ya que solo el individuo puede producir las nuevas ideas.

At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared. We must all hang together. According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

If I were a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher," he intoned to Theodore White of the Reporter magazine. "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope of finding that modest degree of independence still available.

He was the only person to sign all four of its founding papers: the Declaration of Independence, the treaty with France, the peace accord with Britain, and the Constitution.

With his special theory of relativity, Einstein had shown that space and time did not have independent existences, but instead formed a fabric of spacetime.

El respeto ciego por la autoridad es el mayor enemigo de la verdad.

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

En su madurez, Einstein creía más firmemente que había una realidad «objetiva» que existía con independencia de que nosotros pudiésemos observarla o no. La creencia en un mundo externo independiente de la persona que lo observaba —diría repetidamente— era la base de toda ciencia.

more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

I am impassioned for independence; I sacrifice all for it … and am tortured more by all the smallest strings than others are by chains.—XXI, 88.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.