Quotes About Autonomy

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it's all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it's my fault. I like that.

You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

I don't believe in angels, I believe in what I can do for myself

You have to help yourself first.

Siamo tutti responsabili delle nostre esistenze... e dobbiamo vivere con le conseguenze delle scelte che facciamo.

if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

You know what? As sad as I know this will make you, ladies, I'm going home and to bed. Alone.

Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

But I am a Southerner, and it is our prerogative, being us, to remember things as well damn well please.

Perhaps you've heard the proverb, "Give people a fish and they eat for a day, but teach them to fish and they eat for a lifetime." Well, it is also true that "you can lead people to water, but you can't make them fish.

He who stands in need of nothing cannot be bound by anything.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Our country needs Federalism so that there will be devolution of power, and no other tribes will live at the expense of other.

This became our creed, almost a religious faith. Nobody knows and we would have to figure everything out ourselves