Quotes About Independence

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

I am a strong Ukrainian girl, that is why I work a lot.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Hire disrespectful people.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.