Quotes About Self-direction

I can't live my life according to anyone else's schedule.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I'm my own boss, you know?

Although I can work effectively in most environments, I prefer environments where people are their own bosses, within reason. I like to have a goal but be able to draw my own map to get there. To accomplish goals, I rely on asking questions and finding people receptive, so cooperation and access are important to me in a work group.

I don't do terribly well when someone has an exact idea of how one of my goals should be accomplished. That doesn't allow me any latitude to make adjustments to suit my own style. I do well when I can draw my own map.

The fundamental human need to belong comes from the desire to associate with others, to cooperate, to accept group norms. However, the SPE shows that the need to belong can also be perverted into excessive conformity, compliance, and in-group versus out-group hostility. The need for autonomy and control, the central forces toward self-direction and planning, can be perverted into an excessive exercise of power to dominate others or into learned helplessness.

You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

I know where my bread is buttered, and for the most part, I'm better off doing my own thing.

No one has a gun to your head. You are the primary agenda-setter in your life.

I set my own personal goals; I'm not playing to satisfy fans.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

I don't need adult supervision.

I don't want to know where Semco is headed. It doesn't unnerve me to see nothing on the company's horizon. I want Semco and its employees to ramble through their days, to use instinct, opportunity, and ingenuity to choose projects and ventures.

No man is competent to manage another.

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.

When I was still settling into being a CEO, I wasted a lot of time driving initiatives designed to please others, acting as if someone wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with Redfin.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.