Quotes About Autonomy

The woman never wanted much. Just her own way. Like just about every other woman he had ever known.

And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.

Trust no-one, he thought bleakly. For an instant, he did not know if it was his thought or Lous-Therin's, but in the end he decided it did not matter. Everybody had their own goals, their own desires. Much the best to trust no-one completely except himself. Yet he wondered, with another man oozing through the back of his mind, how far he could trust himself.

Nynaeve always fought anything she had not thought of herself.

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.

To choose is our fate. If you have no choice, then you aren't a man at all. You're a puppet…

most of the time he simply inquired what the questioner thought was a good solution and told him to do that. It was seldom he really had to come up with an answer; people knew what to do, they just had this fool notion they had to ask him.

When i marry, it will be beacause I want to, not just because a man expects me to love him.

You cannot please everyone

There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's.

This is thought to reflect the killer combination that these folks are often burdened with, namely, high work demands but little autonomy—responsibility without control.

the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy—responsibility without control.

contemporary studies show that the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy—responsibility without control.

ohne den Menschen etwas vorschreiben zu dürfen, würde die Moral gar kein Vergnügen bereiten.

One of your father's modern ideas about parenting is to leave you alone and let you become the man you want to be, not the man he wants you to be.

The only person who determines the thoughts you choose to believe about yourself, is you.

Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world.

2.?Make daily choices: the power of choice

The other believed in total financial self-reliance.

So we let him act on his own

We just began to separate from the crowd.

and was free to go about doing what I wanted to do.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.