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I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.
— Kristan Higgins, Just One of the Guys
Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?
— Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Kurdistan has a long and turbulent history. Today, it faces a future branching in directions that could lead it towards success or disaster, freedom or renewed oppression.
— Davan Yahya Khalil, Kurdistan: The Road to Independence
Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.
— Michael I. Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.
— Natasha Tsakos
We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries,And It’s better to call for independence.
— Davan Yahya Khalil
The history of Kurdistan doesn’t just tell us why it hasn’t become independent so far. It also helps to make the case for Kurdistan’s independence. It is a desire founded, not just on some passing modern whim in that direction, or on spurious claims to natural and obvious borders, but on a sustained historical focus and desire by its people, on pre-existing promises, on the need for protection from the kind of atrocities that have historically been perpetrated against the Kurds, and on the rather artificial way in which Kurdistan has been denied its existence in the past.
— Davan Yahya Khalil
Creator of indifferences” is the motto I want for my spirit today. I'd like my life's activity to consist, above all, in educating others to feel more and more for themselves, and less and less according to the dynamic low of collectiveness. To educate people in that spiritual antisepsis which precludes contamination by commonness and vulgarity is the loftiest destiny I can imagine for the pedagogue of inner discipline that I aspire to be. If all who read me would learn – slowly, of course, as the subject matter requires – to be completely insensitive to the other people's opinions and even their glances, that would be enough of a garland to make up for my life's scholastic stagnation.
— Pessoa, Fernando
I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.
— Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train
Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.
— Carolyn Ives Gilman, Halfway Human
The only guide which I feel that I can follow is not the fluctuating dicta of those who are victors in the battle for popularity at a given moment, but my own understanding of the American tradition in which I was brought up.
— Jane Jacobs
I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.
— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom.
— Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety
Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The notion that I had walked twelve hundred miles since Rotterdam filled me with a legitimate feeling of something achieved. But why should the thought that nobody knew where I was, as though I were in flight from bloodhounds or from worshipping corybants bent on dismemberment, generate such a feeling of triumph? It always did.
— Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts
Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Since 1857 we know what we are capable of,And Since 1947 we know what is at Stake.
— Mishra Ankit
... rarely missed her family - her family had created their own realm of problems - but at times like this, having someone to turn to would have made life easier.
— Gail Gaymer Martin, Loving Tenderness
Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
I know about how you need to be left alone to do work. I know why. This job, you'll be allowed to do that. You'll report to me, but when you're here, you'll be working on tasks that I assign and that you'll be able to do by yourself.
— Craig Lancaster, 600 Hours of Edward
I help those who can help themselves.
— Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery
Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.
— Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
— Marlon Brando
Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.
— Phyllis T. Smith
With so much "Moos" from the herd, how you gon' get heard?
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.
— Javier Sierra, The Master of the Prado
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
True love transcends the unworthy object, and dwells and broods on the eternal, and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
If you have never questioned set boundaries, or experienced conflict with your family members, you may not have an adult-to-adult connection with your family. If you have no other “best friends” than your family, you need to take a close look at those relationships. You may be afraid of becoming an autonomous adult.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once...There’s a special, insidious kind of hatred for him. They forgive criminals. They admire dictators. Crime and violence are a tie. A form of mutual dependence. They need ties. They’ve got to force their miserable little personalities on every single person they meet. The independent man kills them—because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
What women are concerned in is developing their own individuality, and hence they refuse to call any man master, be he husband or spiritual guide. Personal freedom is more precious to them than the protection of the best men. The women they envy are not those who are simply wives and mothers, but those who by honest intelligent work have attained distinction in any line of effort, and whose creed has been self-reliance.
— Neith Boyce
I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected.
— Hanna Webster Foster
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
— Ronald Reagan
Standing on the top of this Monte d'Ora watching the sun come radiantly alive, Turi Guiliano was filled with youthful glee that he had escaped his enemies. He would never obey another human being again. He would choose who should live and who should die, and there was no doubt in his mind that all he would do would be for the glory and freedom of Sicily, for good and not for evil. That he would only strike for the cause of justice, to help the poor. that he would win every battle, that he would win the love of the oppressed.He was twenty years old.
— Mario Puzo The Sicilian
Karen had no problem standing up to people. She’d say ‘no’ before the question was even asked.
— Cate Cameron, Center Ice
I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya
— Lydhia Marie, Remember
When you are independent you learn strategies of self empowerment
— Marcelle Hinkson
A good relationship does not celebrate dependence; it nurtures the spirit of independence. Fall in love with yourself and commit to your goals, dreams and desires, that’s the most important relationship you can be in.
— Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...
— Bipan Chandra
Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his ownspirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.
— Ben Okri
It also strikes me that male-to-male bonding can create a gender role conflict, as it challenges the myth of full independence. Heroism is an exception. In fact, heroism has a long tradition as part of manhood. Bonds formed through natural disaster or war are exceptions to the typical “self-reliance” rules. These are op-portunities for men to experience a type of connection with each other that is ordinarily prohibited by the “rules” of manhood.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Codependency & Men
You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else's life-war.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
First time since I come to Am'rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I's all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not borrow. What I mean by that? When I with the husband, I seeing everything through his eyes - moon, sun, sky, tree, parking lot, store, everything. If he feeling sun too hot, I feeling upset. If he cursing the cold, I angry with snow. My brains not thinking my own thoughts.
— Thrity Umrigar
We want autonomy for ourselves and safety for those we love. That remains the main problem and paradox for the frail. Many of the things that we want for those we care about are things that we would adamantly oppose for ourselves because they would infringe upon our sense of self.
— Atul Gawande
There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
Most people spend their lives vulnerable, relying on the rest of the world to not take advantage of it.
— Kris Rafferty
How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Nowadays all over the world fighting goes on for freedom and independence but it is hard to find anyone to whom the mystery of the godlike freedom of children of the Heavenly Father has been revealed.
— Sophrony Sakharov
I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.
— Alexandre Dumas
I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.
— Alexandre Dumas
We need three basic things to live - food, clothing, and shelter. Very few of us actually grow our own food, make our own clothes, and build our own homes. If we do not fulfill our basic needs by ourselves, why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to do everything else on our own? Just what are we trying to prove?
— Christine Hassler, 20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-Life Woman's Guide to Balance and Direction
Because I am for them, Commander, because their ancestors stood up to that Nazi, Bligh, just like I would be for one little Jew, terrified and hungry, crossing the Pyrenees to get away to freedom from the Gestapo. One little Jew. You wouldn't have him in your house. He stinks, he has lice. But, you know what, Commander? I am for him, every time.” And he would punch me in the shoulder and lug his M-1 up onto the ridge, night after night.
— James A. Michener
Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.
— Auliq Ice
I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday
The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way.
— A.G. Howard
We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.
— James E. Talmage, A Beginner's Guide to Talmage
When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
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— David Chiles
You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.
— Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.
— Paige Gray
The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does
— Anonymous
Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
— José Rizal, El Filibusterismo
I despise women who rely on men entirely for their own existence.
— Lindsey Davis, Enemies at Home
I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.
— Garrett McCoy
That obstinate sense of independence was the biggest challenge I face in building my little house (that, and not always knowing what I was doing). I was stubborn in the way I hated to ask for help. Some people are good at it, asking friends or their husbands to collect ginger ale and crackers at the grocery because they feel nauseous, or standing on the side of the road with a tire iron in one hand, hoping someone will stop to change their flat tire. I'm not like that; I'd rather have a rough stick dragged across my gums than walk to the neighbor's house to borrow sugar or ask for help jump-starting my car.
— Dee Williams
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
A man spent hours watching a butterfly struggling to emerge from its cocoon. It managed to make a small hole, but its body was too large to get through it. After a long struggle, it appeared to be exhausted and remained absolutely still.The man decided to help the butterfly and, with a pair of scissors, he cut open the cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly. However, the butterfly’s body was very small and wrinkled and its wings were all crumpled.The man continued to watch, hoping that, at any moment, the butterfly would open its wings and fly away. Nothing happened; in fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its brief life dragging around its shrunken body and shrivelled wings, incapable of flight.What the man – out of kindness and his eagerness to help – had failed to understand was that the tight cocoon and the efforts that the butterfly had to make in order to squeeze out of that tiny hole were Nature’s way of training the butterfly and of strengthening its wings.Sometimes, a little extra effort is precisely what prepares us for the next obstacle to be faced. Anyone who refuses to make that effort, or gets the wrong sort of help, is left unprepared to fight the next battle and never manages to fly off to their destiny.
— Paulo Coelho
A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
— Halldór Laxness, Independent People
It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
— Plato, The Republic
We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Now I'll Tell You Everything
I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
I do not imagine I will ever cling to her like she is the last handhold on an otherwise sheer cliff. I have wings. I am ever here in this moment because she is where I want to be. She is not some inanimate savior, she has wings of her own to flutter and soar. I intend to fly beside her, to tumble through the air in loops and gambols, to carry her when she grows tired, to keep her warm beneath them against raging winds.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
[Leslie Bennett] You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?
— Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
I worry that independence will never feel safe again.
— K.R. Albers, Unavoidable Circles
Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can’t relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great being Scottish. We’re becoming something, Julie. I can feel it. We’re getting dressed up.
— Alan Bissett, Death Of A Ladies' Man
You can love people, and you can befriend them, but the only person you can ever one hundred percent depend on is yourself.
— Trisha Leigh, Winter Omens
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.
— Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City
You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.
— Yogeshwaran Selvaraju
National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.
— George F. Will, One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?
— William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
At a trade show, someone said, "You'll get in trouble for that." I replied,"Are they going to call the trade show police?
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
And I wonder how the leaves clinched to the branches, yet to fall, the survivors feel when they see one of their own perish and realise that they too are to share a similar fate, does this thought cause them to give up selflessly, from confinement to independence or does it instil proportions of both courage and fear making them hold on as long as they can and accept what comes after?
— Chirag Tulsiani
Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.
— Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
She is like a cat in the darkAnd then she is the darknessShe rules her life like a fine skylarkAnd when the sky is starlessAll your life you've never seen a womanTaken by the windWould you stay if she promised you heaven?Will you ever win?
— Stevie Nicks, Best Of Fleetwood Mac (Easy Piano)
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
— John D. Rockefeller
Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No
— Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving
Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object under the hedge - a shephard´s hut - now presenting an outline to which an unintiated person might have been puzzled to attach either meaning or use. ... Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful. For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. ... Oak´s motions, though they had a quiet energy, were slow, and their deliberateness accorded well with his occupation. Fitness being the basis of beauty, nobody could have denied tha his steady swings and turns in and about the flock had elements of grace. His special power, morally, physically, and mentally, was static. ... Oak was an intensely human man: indee, his humanity tore in pieces any politic intentions of his which bordered on strategy, and carried him on as by gravitation. A shadow in his life had always been that his flock should end in mutton - that a day could find a shepherd an arrant traitor to his gentle sheep.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.
— Nora Roberts, Face the Fire
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.
— Cora Pearl
I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guys who own the banks and insurance companies and stock markets, who own the factories and coal mines and oil fields, who own the goddamn Law. I once said to John that being an outlaw was about the only way left for a man to hold on to his self-respect, and he said Ain't that the sad truth. The girls laughed along with us because they knew it wasn't a joke.... John got the publicity because he loved it ... he carried on like the whole thing was an adventure movie and he was Douglas Fairbanks. He wanted to to be a 'star.' That's how he was. Not me. I never even liked having my picture taken. All I ever wanted was to show the bastards who own the law that it didn't mean they owned me.
— James Carlos Blake, Handsome Harry
The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.He didn't realize that the truth was so much more complex, so much less impressive. She had less thrown than been thrown.
— Lauren Willig, The Ashford Affair
St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and you try to stir me up to rest­less­ness! To what end?”“To the end of turn­ing to profit the tal­ents which God has committed to your keep­ing; and of which He will surely one day de­mand a strict ac­count. Jane, I shall watch you closely and anx­iously—I warn you of that. And try to re­strain the dis­pro­por­tion­ate fervour with which you throw your­self into com­mon­place home pleasures. Don’t cling so tena­ciously to ties of the flesh; save your con­stancy and ar­dour for an ad­e­quate cause; for­bear to waste them on trite tran­sient ob­jects. Do you hear, Jane?”“Yes; just as if you were speak­ing Greek. I feel I have ad­e­quate cause to be happy, and I will be happy. Good­bye!
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
If she took Po as her husband, she would be making promises about a future she couldn't yet see. For once she became his wife, she would be his forever. And, no matter how much freedom Po gave her, she would always know that it was a gift. Her freedom would be not be her own; it would be Po's to give or to withhold. That he never would withhold it made no difference. If it did not come from her, it was not really hers.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.
— Swami Vivekananda
It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I don't want to have to save your life,' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.
— Elsie Chapman, Dualed
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn red or aubergine or Egyptian henna, depending on her mood. Her skin is pale as frost and she wears beautiful Jil Sander suits and Prada pumps on which she walks faster than a speeding taxi (when it is caught in rush hour, that is). Her lips are some unlikely shade of copper or violet, courtesy of her local MAC drag queen makeup consultant. She is always carrying bags of clothes, bouquets of roses, take-out Chinese containers, or bagels. Museum tags fill her pockets and purses, along with perfume samples and invitations to art gallery openings. When she is walking to work, to ward off bums or psychos, her face resembles the Statue of Liberty, but at home in her candlelit, dove-colored apartment, the stony look fades away and she smiles like the sterling roses she has brought for herself to make up for the fact that she is single and her feet are sore.
— Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy
I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.
— Thorin
I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as his only AVAILABLE one, thus proving that he is himself AVAILABLE for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
We have more to fear from the opinions of our friends than the bayonets of our enemies." Politician turned Union General Nathaniel Banks, in plea he couldn't abandon an untenable position.
— Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.
— Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.
— TammyJo Eckhart, At Her Feet: Powering Your Femdom Relationship
I love your independence, I love that you don't swoon, I love that you'll fight me with your last breath if you think I'm wrong, and if I ever have to catch you, I swear I'll make sure you're standing on your feet as quickly as you can manage it.
— Dianna Hardy, The Sands Of Time
I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.
— Lois Battle, Storyville
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
— Miguel Syjuco
Talking about independence makes me wonder, Who is truly independent in this world? A farmer who grows food is dependent on a baker, a barber, a doctor, and so on. A doctor is dependent on other people of different professions in order to survive. I am dependent and will be dependent on certain caregivers and therapists. Those caregivers and therapists need people like me to earn their bread and butter and draw their salaries. So no one is doing any favors when choosing whatever his means of livelihood is.
— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind
When we experience a new adventure, it changes us; thus, adventure is the link between who we were, and who we are destined to become.
— Anella Wetter, Hear Me Universe!: How I Deliberately Attracted The Man of My Dreams
My hesitancy to claim what I wanted meant that I got less of what I wanted.
— Anella Wetter, Hear Me Universe!: How I Deliberately Attracted The Man of My Dreams
The only way to know the honesty of any person is to love them without desire.
— G.K. Dutta
Some people think they are punishing me when they hit their head against a wall. If that's not insane, I wonder what is. Yeah, I'm going to punish you for being my boyfriend, by insulting you and destroying our relationship. I'm going to punish you for taking me on vacations, by disappearing, even if you are the one with the house keys. I'm going to punish you for giving me books to read, by not reading them. I'm going to punish you for complaining about my behavior, by becoming a much worse person. And well, why not, I'm going to commit suicide to prove you my life has no value and you are wrong in thinking it does? It's so sad when people are literally as stupid and dumb as they are insane.
— Robin Sacredfire
Like it or not, your life—what works well and what doesn't—is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way.
— Susan C. Young, The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact: 8 Ways to Shine Bright to Transform Relationship Results
The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you will always be miserable, because that is actually your job
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Intelligently:Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America
It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.
— Sheri E. Ragland
When your ex says "I miss you", that means the person they tried to replace you with has failed.
— Manasa Rao
Love is the ocean. We are all the waves.
— Subhan Zein
You're not really moving on when you jump from someone who broke your heart to a new replacement. Moving on is self reflection and being strong enough to stand on your own.
— Auliq Ice
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change after he's thirty. It only becomes more firmly set, and is more deeply marked in his features.
— Ralph Moody, Shaking the Nickel Bush
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
— Noam Chomsky
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
— David Ogilvy
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
— Jeff Bezos
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
— Jeff Bezos
Attention is a main asset in marketing.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.
— Gavin John Adams, Letters to John Law
Stop thinking “Outside the box” and look what is actually in the box first. You jump around from marketing gimmick to marketing gimmick without a clear plan or goal, hoping to reproduce someone else’s success without understanding all of the nuances and factors that went into that success. Further, people are so busy recreating the wheel that they have forgotten what the wheel looks like.
— Julie Ann Dawson
The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.
— Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
Content Isn't King, It's the Kingdom.
— Lee Odden, Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media, and Content Marketing
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
— Joni Rodgers
Josephy visited several leading Manhattan bookstores and sadly discovered the explanation [from his agent] to be generally correct; books about Indians were shelved in the back of the stores alongside books about natural history, dinosaurs, plants, birds, and animals rather than being placed alongside biographies and histories of Americans, Europeans, Asians, Africans, and other great world cultures. Puzzled, Josephy began asking bookstore managers for a justification of this marketing tactic and was informed that Indian books had “just always been placed there.” The longer he pondered booksellers’ indifference toward Indians, the more annoyed Josephy became with the realization that bookstore marketing tactics were simply a reflection of the pervasive thinking throughout the United States in 1961: Americans believed Indians to be a vanished people. “Thinking about it made me angry,” Josephy wrote in his autobiography, “and I vowed that someday, some way, I would do something about this ignorant insult.
— Bobby Bridger, Where the Tall Grass Grows: Becoming Indigenous and the Mythological Legacy of the American West
The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.
— Lucas Conley, OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway.
— Seth Godin
Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.
— Richie Norton
Ain’t nobody gonna separate from theircold hard cash unless they have an unresolved problem, so ifyou want to make money, you have to be incredibly clearabout what problem(s) you solve.
— Amber Hurdle, The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave, and Successful Female Entrepreneur
Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.
— Richie Norton
When you say the word marketing, do you think of serving? Until you do, you’re going to live far below your highest potential.
— Richie Norton
Sharing the same exact content, message or advertisements over and over again only showcases your limited content and a serious lack of depth in your message.
— Loren Weisman
If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?
— Loren Weisman
The core of PR ((public relations) is strongest where our identity and value relationships are built through sharing and caring interactions, not sold through marketing pitches asking directly for transactions." ~ @Tracey007Bond
— Tracey Bond
When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must be from the heart.
— Joseph C. Kunz, Jr.
The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!
— Seth Godin, Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers
Colonel Cargill, General Peckem’s troubleshooter, was a forceful, ruddy man. Before the war he had been an alert, hard-hitting, aggressive marketing executive. He was a very bad marketing executive. Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and opened every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Marketing is the perfect blend or art and science. But more than that, marketing is a craft.
— Anurag Wadehra
Marcus Brutus was the original tragic hero of the play ‘Julius Caesar’, Aditya concluded. Perhaps, Shakespeare should have named his play ‘Marcus Brutus’. But then again, it all must have boiled down to saleability and marketing; Julius Caesar being the more famous and thus bankable name. Ironical it was, Aditya smiled. The same Shakespeare had once said-‘What’s in a name...
— Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments.
— Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands". At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians.
— Nancy Jo Sales, The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World
You can market anything in the world all it requires creativity and patience #Thinklogical #ThinkDigital
— Shraddha Tiwari
With a solid prospecting system you will find qualified people to present your products and services to; with a solid marketing system, buyers will find you in order to learn about your products and services, whilst during this process your brand is born.
— Farshad Asl
To create growth in business, you must control your branding, marketing, and lead generation.
— Edwin Dearborn, Power Branding Secrets: Spark Customer Interest and Ignite Your Sales
Writing a book is easy, getting people to read it is the hard part.
— Jordon Sagel
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
— Roy H. Williams
The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.
— Roy H. Williams, The Wizard of Ads Trilogy on CD
Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.
— Roy H. Williams
Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?
— Roy H. Williams, Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads
People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
— Roy H. Williams
No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.
— Roy H. Williams
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
— Roy H. Williams
Considered your brand a life experience.
— Daniel C. Felsted
A brand should take into account the customer’s total shopping experience—every contact point is important and should be in accord with the customer expectations.
— Daniel C. Felsted
The world’s most powerful business tool is also the most misunderstood. The e-factors are all about feelings not figures and feelings rule all buying decisions!
— Daniel C. Felsted
Does your marketing promote the difference between good and bad or better and best?
— Daniel C. Felsted
The only way to have great customers is to be one.
— Daniel C. Felsted
What we're left with ... is the distinctly uncomfortable sense that much of what we call culture jamming achieves the same effect as traditional marketing. Both rely on the bedrock principle that branding works. Yet marketing has moved on from branding toward a more direct emotional connection to our reptilian brains, which makes it immune to the cognitive dissonance culture jamming creates. In the meantime, the brans being promoted by some activists retain the full integrity of their original message,
— Anne Elizabeth Moore, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
They've given Harry the attributes of pistachio nuts and crack cocaine without the health risks (opening thousands of pistachio nuts can cause severe thumb-bruising, I can tell you from bitter experience of my life on the edge).
— David        Mitchell, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
Word-of-mouth marketing is the best form of Free promotion
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
It used to be said "Build it and they will come," now it is "Build it and bribe them in".
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Networking is not a part-time or occasional exercise. Everywhere we go, we haven an opportunity to network with others.
— Timothy M. Houston, No-Nonsense Networking: The Straightforward Guide to Making Productive, Profitable and Prosperous Contacts and Connections
When you are networking you are doing more than just marketing your business
—  you are marketing yourself.
An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul.
— April WIlliams
Referrals are the privilege of the opportunity given to you by someone else to potentially do business with someone who wants, needs or desires the products or services you offer
— Timothy M. Houston, The Referral Rules! 7 Ways to Get More Profitable Referrals
Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.
— Timothy M. Houston, Leads To Referrals
The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.
— Timothy M. Houston, Leads To Referrals
Let 'the cause' become the 'because' – the reason – for people to do business with and to refer business to you
— Timothy M. Houston, Leads To Referrals
Don’t just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
There is no faster way to garner the lasting respect of employees, partners, and consumers than to become the embodiment of an ideal.
— Gregory V. Diehl, Brand Identity Breakthrough: How to Craft Your Company's Unique Story to Make Your Products Irresistible