Quotes About Agency

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.

Life is the result of all your choices.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Indeed the most prevalent set of metaphors seems to be that of code as structure: platforms, architectures, objects, portals, gateways. This serves to both depersonify software, diluting the notion of software agency (buildings are passive; it's the architects, engineers, and users who act), and reifying code as an objective construct, like a building, that exists in the world.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

no organised being could ever have been called into existence by other agency than by the direct intervention of a reflective mind.

Above all, the Gy-ei have a readier and more concentred power over that mysterious fluid or agency which contains the element of destruction, with a larger portion of that sagacity which comprehends dissimulation. Thus they cannot only defend themselves against all aggressions from the males, but could, at any moment when he least expected his danger, terminate the existence of an offending spouse.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

las personas no poseen una libertad total para pensar, decir o hacer lo que quieran, ya que hay límites en la capacidad de agencia humana.

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.