Quotes About Autonomy

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I'm a loner, so independent it's awful. It's one of the main reasons for the failures of my marriages.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

It is a false belief to think you can own somebody, I'm out of that now. The man should understand he does not own the woman, and the woman should understand she does not own the man.

In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.

The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.

A lot of companies have teams, but they are not really independent. They still have to get stuff approved by the boss. You have to change how and where decisions are made. If the hierarchy makes the decision, it will be based on politics.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in space and hit some of our deep-space exploration goals.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

I was a very independent teenager.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

I think you are going through so many 'firsts' as a teenager, and it's a charged time because of that. You don't have much autonomy in life. Everything is just kind of crazy, and there are so many huge decisions to be made, like where are you going to college or who you date. These things can really affect your whole life.