Top 1200 Independent Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent.

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Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

I believe it is important for both Russia and Europe that Belarus is a sovereign, independent state where Europeans can feel at home.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

In general, being independent is so liberating, you get to create without someone looking over your shoulders.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset; but conspiracism is a virus that feeds off insecurity and bitterness.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

I'm quite happy to perform my official duties. But on the other hand, I've always wanted to be independent and to have my own career.

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

The arts are statistically proven to increase independent thinking, creativity, discipline, balance, and academic improvement in children.

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.

For far too long, independent voices have been relegated to places where these ideas are not seen on a mass level.

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give anyone any percentage.

An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?

There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

Cats, unlike dogs, are independent creatures. They do not need walking and are content to be alone all day, providing they are fed.

I have always wanted to be independent. When I became a producer, people said I would not succeed, but I proved them wrong.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.