Quotes About Independence

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa! Let us work towards the one glorious end of a free, redeemed and mighty nation. Let Africa be a bright star among the constellation of nations.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.