Quotes about Independence

You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

Pick me, pick me" acknowledges the power of the system and passes responsibility to someone else to initiate. Even better, "pick me, pick me" moves the blame from you to them. If you don't get picked, it's their fault, not yours. If you do get picked, well, they said you were good, right? Not your fault anymore. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channels than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.

Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.

This desire for external approval and authority directly undermines your ability to trust yourself, because you've handed this trust over to an institution instead. Now, more and more of us are seeing that it's a fraud. The institutions have no magical powers, as they're regularly proved wrong in their ability to select, to mold, and to amplify human beings who care enough to make change happen.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Life helps those who help themselves.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.