Quotes About Agency

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

Men make their own history

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Reality is what we make it. Or what is made for us by the companies we keep. It is our clay from which we fashion ourselves.

And as the number of media grew, the material became more up to date, and the methods for searching the Library became more and more sophisticated, it approached the point where there was no substantive difference between the Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency. Fortuitously, this happened just as the government was falling apart anyway. So they merged and kicked out a big fat stock offering.

Much later, humans might rouse themselves to take action and be agents once again. But now and for long into the future they would be nothing more than patients.

IARPA—the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has been running this thing until now—thinks other countries might have, or might soon have, access to . . . others like Erzsebet.

Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done?

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

I make moves on my terms.

I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn't even know when it became my passion and my hobby.

I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

If we must be extinguished, let it be on our own terms.

No one plays me, 'Lion'. That's no secret. No one gets into my head unless I let them. And just so we understand one another... Here's the deal . You work for me now.

Persons in their most developed form are conscious, reflexive, embodied, self-transcending centers of subjective experience, durable identity, moral commitment, and social communication who—as the efficient cause of their own responsible actions and interactions—exercise complex capacities for agency and inter-subjectivity in order to sustain their own incommunicable selves in loving relationships with other personal selves and with the non-personal world.

Yes I have free will; I have no choice but to have it.

Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do