Quotes About Self-direction

si te reporta mucho, si te permite actuar con autonomía, si

How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

How can you tell if your woman's self-direction is healthy for her? If she becomes more and more full and happy as she pursues her direction, then it is good for her. If she becomes more and more stressed, taut, and emotionally angular, then she is animating excess masculine direction.

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

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

Because there's nothing better than autonomy. Because

Don't let your society and environment dictate what you do with your time

You can be your own boss

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

The best agent for me is myself.

I'm a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that's good about video games is they can direct their own experience.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive—our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to make a contribution.

The most fulfilling jobs share a common trait: They prod us to work at our highest level but in a way that we, not someone else, control.

This era doesn't call for better management. It calls for a renaissance of self-direction.

not-so-interesting jobs require direction; non-routine, more interesting work depends on self-direction.

Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

The opposite of autonomy is control. And since they sit at different poles of the behavioral compass, they point us toward different destinations. Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. And this distinction leads to the second element of Type I behavior: mastery—the desire to get better and better at something that matters.

Routine, not-so-interesting jobs require direction; nonroutine, more interesting work depends on self-direction.

Routine, not-so-interesting jobs require direction; nonroutine, more interesting work depends on self-direction. One business leader, who didn't want to be identified, said it plainly. When he conducts job interviews, he tells prospective employees: "If you need me to motivate you, I probably don't want to hire you.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will