Quotes About Independence

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

Just as it takes work to be in a relationship, so it takes work to not be in a relationship.

I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.