Quotes About Agency

We create ourselves by our choices. —Søren Kierkegaard

Does the client experience life as merely imposed or rather as something he or she can author in a meaningful and ongoing way?

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.

The misconception about the record company is that they were the ones who got me wearing short skirts, or got me to do my hair blond, or got me to dance around onstage and start doing different things with my clothes. No, that was actually all me.

Even the kids who seem to have a lot of freedom, their lives are pretty controlled. So what I try to do on my shows is to have kids come out on top. They're the smartest ones in the room. They're the ones in charge.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

The individual is the product of power.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

He felt responsible for his fate, but his fate felt no responsibility for him.

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

Everyone has choices to make no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

As they emerge, the creatures beneath those fragile shells begin to understand that they possess more agency than they ever dreamed.

So had the eminent clergyman, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, who had told the world that a Sharps rifle was a greater moral agency than a Bible, as far as Kansas was concerned.

them the ABCs of meaning. The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

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We have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.

Acts done by my body against my will are not my acts.

maintain that blaming them for Besseta commissioning them to enchant me would be akin to blaming the blade for drawing blood. 'Tis the hand that wields the dagger, not the dagger itself.

Men make their own history

The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity.