Quotes About Independence

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn't blankness – it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.

The world is full of men who are attracted to women but aren't really interested in them. Weak women sometimes give in to men like that. As it happens, I don't need a man. I live alone. I work, I read books, and I listen to music. Sometimes I have a visitor in the evening. Sometimes on another evening I have a different visitor. They come and they go. I'm self-sufficient.

You might even say I loved my punishment of solitary confinement. Whoever doesn't need other human beings, Father quoted Aristotle, must be a god or an animal. For hours on end, I enjoyed being both. I didn't mind.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you- not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only

And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations.

Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. [...] Too much water and you flowed in too many directions.

Finish your coffee," I told her yesterday. "Don't throw your blessings away." "Don't be so old-fashioned, Ma," she told me, finishing her coffee down the sink. "I'm my own person." And I think, How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?

They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

Vergüenza es caerte cuando nadie empuja.

When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you—not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again?

Llevaba un hermoso vestido rojo, pero lo que vi era incluso más valioso. Yo era fuerte. Era pura. Albergaba en mi interior unos pensamientos genuinos que nadie podría arrebatarme jamás. Yo era como el viento.

Nadie, ni yo ni nadie, puede andar este camino por ti. Habrás de recorrerlo tú solo. No está lejos; lo tienes a tu alcance. Tal vez estás en él desde que naciste, sin saberlo. Tal vez está en todas partes: en el mar y en la tierra.

I was like a bird, my wings once carried on a wind of lies. I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind

He should go away and study, let his mind wander freely. Until then, he should not be obeisant in spirit to those who trampled it.

Whenever others disapprove of you, you must disregard them and be the only one to judge your own decisions and actions

I would beat those wings to stay aloft, and when the wind suddenly died or buffeted me around, I would keep beating those strong wings and fly in my own slice of wind.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.