Quotes About Autonomy

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

You know, you don't please everybody.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

You definitely cannot please everyone at all.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.

The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing. It's saying what I want to say. It's working with the people I want to work with. I don't have to worry about pleasing other people - I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.

The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.

I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.