Quotes About Autonomy

I don't compare myself to anybody. I try to be my own player.

I definitely don't want to be compared with Dele anymore.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

I'm not going to compromise or not say what I want for anyone.

I've nothing against schools! I'm against compulsory schooling.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Anything you spend a long time on, of course it would be nice if everyone likes it. But I think the strength that we've got is that we always concentrate on what we want it to be like and not really trying to please other people.

I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone?

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

A personal code of conduct that you follow is far better than a social code of conduct that you are forced to follow.

It doesn't matter how I conduct myself or what I wear or how I speak or where I sit or what I do. That does not allow anybody to harass me.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.