Quotes About Freelancers

#1. Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

Chris Hardwick

#2. Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world

Thomas Friedman

#3. The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Douglas Rushkoff

#4. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

Amanda Lindhout

#6. If I took a month off, I was likely to be replaced by one of the other, say, two hundred freelancers vying to get my assignments. If I took six months off to have a baby, I believed I would be written off by my editors. I was in a man's profession.

Lynsey Addario

#7. People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.

Sebastian Junger

#8. Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like that everywhere else.

Lauren Weisberger

#9. We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#10. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will indulge in the other.

Mary Shelley

#11. Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

Joe Manchin

#12. Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.

Mandy Hale

#13. The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

Dana Spiotta

#14. All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Walter Savage Landor

#16. Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them ... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

Eugene Delacroix

#17. I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

Paige Craig

#18. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

#19. I believe that we learn by practice ... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Martha Graham

#20. I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

Tom Harrell

#21. This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

Frederick Lenz

#22. Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#23. God was singing through this little man to all the world.

Peter Shaffer