Quotes About Agency

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I'm not going to be bullied by an overzealous agency of the United States government.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Positive health means becoming whole-heartedly engaged with our own health care. It means not outsourcing our health to the health care system. It means getting rid of the fear and paralysis we too often feel, and instead cultivating a sense of agency.

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

I've always been a part-time model since I graduated from high school. I was hired by one of the major agencies, Wilhelmina in New York, so I modeled there and played basketball during the school season.

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

La palabra "riesgo" procede del italiano risicare, que significa "atreverse". En este sentido, el riesgo es más bien una elección que un destino.... La idea de la gestión de riesgos solo surge cuando las personas creen que hasta cierto punto son agentes libres.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.

The trouble is if you don't spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.

And from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.

And from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid. Even

what the Agency does is ordered by the President and the NSC. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President ... to use in any way he pleases.

We cannot, after all, be forced to be free or to value freedom.

Futureoriented people believe that when you choose a behavior, you choose its future consequences, but Zajonc, Bargh, and many others in social psychology have demonstrated that sometimes you do not choose a behavior. Sometimes a behavior chooses you based upon the environment in which you find yourself.

departments were identified as suitable for agency status. The initial list was a modest one, both in terms of

Non si può impedire a qualcuno di farsi o disfarsi la propra vita, si tenta, si soffre, ssi lotta ma le persone non sono di nessuno, nel bene e nel male.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

The way it works in commercials is they come to you with the script, and then you do the visual, you do the storyboards, and you give your vision of it, but it's very much their baby. You just kind of put your polish and sheen on it and your interpretation of it, but it's very much the agency's idea.