Quotes About Independence

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

I work hard and support myself.

I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Never ask people about your work.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.