Top 1200 Independent Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

I've got a core audience, so regardless of what I put out, I can sell 100,000 records on an independent.

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

I am a sensitive person and am emotional, but will never show it. I am a giver as I feel for people, but I don't give to everybody. But if I connect with the person and genuinely feel for the person, then I will.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.

My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.

We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

It's one thing to be dumb or ignorant or be in over your head. But if you can be the person who knows how much he does not know and be curious about the things you do not know, then that automatically lends itself to being a big-hearted, welcoming person who wants to know about every single person you meet.

Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

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

I auditioned for everything. It was daily, relentless. Independent films, chewing gum commercials, television shows.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

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

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking].

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

I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife. While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person.

Britain's independent possession of nuclear weapons has turned into a political touchstone for commitment to national defense, but this is an illusion.

What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. (p. 176)

We've always been for women and for biggin' up their self-esteem. That's why we do songs like 'Independent.'

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Working with Lucha and Mexico and all the independent wrestling I've done has made me an exponentially better performer.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way. So I think for all new moms, I can totally see how you can get wrapped up in making your child 100% your time. But if you could just take 5% or 10% for yourself a day, it won't just make the difference in your confidence, but also your sanity. I think once you just set boundaries and how you're going to parent - everyone parents differently so I hate to be that person to tell them how anyone should parent, I think whatever works for you works.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.

Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.