Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Montessori

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

Maria Montessori

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

Maria Montessori

Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment.

Maria Montessori

No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...

Maria Montessori

No one can be free unless he is independent.

Mary Tyler Moore

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

Patricia Clarkson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

Patricia Heaton

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

Plautus

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

Ledisi

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

Lech Walesa

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

Peter Agre

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

Marjane Satrapi

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

Maynard Webb

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

Matthew Lillard

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Maya Angelou

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Mia Wasikowska

I come from a background of independent films.

Mia Wasikowska

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

Michel Gondry

I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.

Michel Gondry

I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.

Martha Plimpton

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Mark Ruffalo

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

Ted Olson

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Margaret Haddix

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret Fuller

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Michael Fassbender

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

Michael Bloomberg

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Michael Parenti

Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Neal Boortz

Big-government liberals don't like people with a sense of independence because independent people don't need big government.

Neale Donald Walsch

We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.

Nancy Travis

The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.

Mike Leigh

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.