Quotes About Self-direction

Wem die Fähigkeit abhandengekommen ist, selbstbestimmt zu handeln, ist aber nicht meinesgleichen.

Never allow others to create your world because if you do, they will always make it too small.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Nobody controls me but me.

I could never take orders from anyone.

Everybody is making his own rules to suit himself.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

No one should decide your future for you but you. If you don't like where your life is headed, change it.

Just like I will decide my life. No more waiting for other people to decide things for me. I'm writing it right now.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I would really want to teach someone how to function without having to have plays called for you.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

at the outset it needs to be stressed that discipline means education. Discipline is essentially programmed guidance that helps people to develop internal self-control, self-direction, and efficiency. If it is to work, discipline requires mutual respect and trust. On the other hand, punishment requires external control over a person by force and coercion. Punishing agents seldom respect or trust the one punished.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

These, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

I always followed my own path.

I am my own law–and the law of some others.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.