Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vin Diesel

I've directed independent film.

Kal Penn

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Milton Friedman

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

Joseph Pulitzer

Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Lauren Potter

I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.

Kazimir Malevich

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

Pope John Paul II

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

Molly Ringwald

I have a very independent spirit.

Shane West

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Peter Thiel

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

Les Miles

I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.

Lara Flynn Boyle

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Larry Bird

When I was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.

L. Ron Hubbard

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has.

Thierry Henry

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Terry Tempest Williams

When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.

Leo Rosten

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?