Quotes About Autonomy

Le leggi del desiderio sono universali ma non comportano l'uniformità delle opere romanzesche, nemmeno sui punti di applicazione. La legge fonda la diversità e la rende intelligibile. L'unità romanzesca appare a condizione che smettiamo di considerare il personaggio - il sacrosanto individuo - come una entità perfettamente autonoma e scopriamo le leggi dei rapporti fra tutti i personaggi.

You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem.

She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

This is my mind. Only I have the right to be here.

People, including those who love us, only do what we allow them to do. They only suck up the energy we give.

We've talked about this," she said matter-of-factly. "I'm on lease. Nobody's purchased me, so therefore no one needs to be 'checking up on me.

From cradle to grave, the Religious Right is concerned about every choice you make.

He lowered the magazine. "Archie. You may remember that I once returned a retainer of forty thousand dollars which a client named Zimmermann had paid me, because he wanted to tell me how to handle his case instead of leaving it to me. Well?" He lifted the magazine. He lowered it again. "Please type the report." He lifted it again.

One reason I like to work for him is that he never rides me for not acting the way he would act. He knows what I can do and that's all he ever expects; but he sure expects that.

You are 100% responsible for getting your needs met, but you cannot meet them alone

You cannot create other people's lives for them.

James Whitehorn Honeycutt would simply have to find another way to merge Honeycutt Foods with Reedwater Snacks. Regardless of what her father thought, the merger wasn't worth her freedom, or her happiness. She wasn't some medieval bride to be bartered off like a herd of cattle and a milk goat, for pity's sake. She was a woman who wanted more, who wanted to make her own decisions, her own choices. It saddened

I'm teaching you how to survive in a difficult world. You can't be under your parents' thumb forever. You have to take charge of your own life now you're going to be twenty-one.

I will not be bullied or dictated to. I'm not a child any more, and I'm prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.

You cannot live someone else's life. Your life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want.

The power of a good idea is that it convinces people to change their behaviour themselves – no physical coercion is required. Do it right, and they'll even think it was their own idea.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

At Semco, you are what you do, not what or whom you control.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules

Este grupo (que inclui supervisores, chefias e diretores) tem uma particularidade unica - é um grupo constituido de profissionais que deixaram de ser empregados, mas não chegaram a virar patroes. Sao os Roberta Close da empresa.

Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done.

Moreover, in my view, obtrusive and intrusive leadership becomes counterproductive by interfering with the free interplay of individual talent and interest.