Quotes About Independence

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.

Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting # intuition guide my way.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.

The drawings need to be strong enough to stand alone, and not just work as part of a sequence.