Independent Quotes - Page 27

• Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

  Theodor Adorno

  Revenge, Home, Order

  "Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschadigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life)". Book by Theodor Adorno (1951) translated by E. Jephcott (§ 1), 1974.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Bigs, Critics

  4 Copy quote

• A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Weather, People

  31 Copy quote

• There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Reading, Two, Able

  54 Copy quote

• Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Make Others Happy, Would Be, Life Is

  7 Copy quote

• We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Party, Believe, Fighting

  "CBS Evening News", "Campaign '08" segment,, June 20, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Self, America, Goal

  "A War Tat is Finishe". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Economics, Should, Millionaire

  4 Copy quote

• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Fire, Two

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Motivational, Suffering, Sake

  "Computing Science: Achievements and Challenges". Edsger Dijkstra's keynote address at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in San Antonio, Texas, www.cs.utexas.edu. March 1, 1999.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

  Katya Chamma

  Believe, Fighting, Alternatives

  7 Copy quote

• The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Government, Order

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mandate entails a generous synthesis of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. The title requires the expert to be truly independent, keep an open mind, conduct his/her research objectively and without ideological prejudices, listen to all sides of an argument and seek the opinion of all stakeholders. The essence of an independent expert is not merely his/her expertise - which must be considered a given - but the faculty of thinking outside the box, while rigorously respecting the terms of reference laid down in the resolution establishing the mandate, and observing the code of conduct of rapporteurs.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Rights, Political, Mind

  "Recent Developments & Highlights". Message on the personal website, alfreddezayas.com. March 05, 2018.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  Safra A. Catz

  Wall, Law, Decision

  8 Copy quote

• What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Principles, Doe, Matter

  Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.

  Britney Spears

  Regret, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

  Joe Lieberman

  Defense, Republican, Democrat

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Moving, Oil, Green

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jennifer Granholm

  Technology, Electric Vehicles, America

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

  Howard Fineman

  Car, People, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.

  Joan Frank

  Friendship, Roots, Coal

  6 Copy quote

• " many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."

  Paul A. Baran

  Shoes, Corporations, United States

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 4, (p. 84), 1957.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

  Katya Chamma

  Communication, Internet, Modern

  4 Copy quote

• The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

  African Spir

  Character, Successful, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source