Self-Sustaining Quotes

Whether I'm at the gas station or I be at the store, I be there by myself. I be regular.

knowledge began freely replicating and quickly assumed a life of its own.

When we seek to reinstate the self-confidence and business enterprise of our citizens by discrediting an abject dependence upon governmental favor, we strive to stimulate those elements of American character which support the hope of American achievement.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

As a small brand, we do it all. We don't need an investor. We would never go anywhere or do anything where we feel it would compromise what we do.

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

I was always extremely independent growing up.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

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

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord." In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being." Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.