Quotes About Self-direction

Anything your reader can do for himself leave to him.

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

We need to be the authors of our own life.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.

Reverence that which is best in the universe; and this is that which makes use of all things and directs all things. And in like manner also reverence that which is best in thyself; and this is of the same kind as that. For in thyself also, that which makes use of everything else, is this, and thy life is directed by this.

8. The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.

Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn't lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do

Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.

Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

you are the best authority on how to live your life.

What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?

ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment). Basically you work whenever, wherever, and however you want—as long as you get the job done. This option can only work if your employer is not only incredibly flexible but also incredibly clear on what you're supposed to accomplish. At the same time, you have to be extremely well organized and self-directed.

Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don't know how to tell themselves what to do.

Construímos uma estilo de vida que depende de que as pessoas continuem fazendo o que lhes mandam fazer por não saberem como dizer a si mesmas o que deve ser feito.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.