Quotes About Agency

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

To say that AI will start doing what it wants for its own purposes is like saying a calculator will start making its own calculations.

What was really special about 'Hanna' as a character is her pursuit of agency.

Obviously you can stash money under your mattress, cut down on hazelnut lattes, but in terms of the larger economic frame of our lives, we have very little agency. About one of the only things you can do is understand it.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.

We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be." —Leto Atreides II The Harq al-Ada Biography

But there's another way to describe the convenience of the machine: It is the surrender of free will—algorithms make choices for us.

Say, Joe, I know where you can book passage!" "Where?" "At Klack's Agency. It's not far from here. Next block." He led the way to a dingy-looking establishment with several blackboards in the window. On them were chalked such legends as Cook Wanted, Fireman (First Class) for S.A., Cruise and Stokers Wanted. "A lot of freighter crews are signed up here," Biff explained. "I've heard they book passengers as a sideline.

I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

In 1997, I was working with Greg Wilson of Red Ball Tiger, our ad agency at the time, when he came up with an addition to the famous slogan 'I guarantee it' that I was known for saying.

Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama!

NASA, a U.S. government agency that makes extensive use of Java. One notable example is SkyWatch, an applet that helps stargazers keep an eye out for orbiting satellites.

Easy strode to the back door. "Call the Kearny Detective Agency up in SF and ask them to go talk to the Levin girl. Also get them to check on Jill's Porsche, see if the cops have picked it up anyplace in San Francisco." He opened the door.

human beings traditionally have great trouble in coping with the concept of random chance. People tend on the whole to want to assign occurrences of remarkable good or bad luck to agency, either human or superhuman. It is important to emphasize, however, that malevolent humans have been only one kind of agent to whom such causation has been attributed: the others include deities, non-human spirits that inhabit the terrestrial world, or the spirits of dead human ancestors.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

I am the framework for everything that happens in my life.

You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: 'Now I want to go this way.' I say: 'Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.' That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions.