Quotes About Autonomy

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord. . . . So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

Second, the teacher should be given extensive liberty in the selection of the material to be taught and the methods of teaching employed by him. For it is true also of him that pleasure in the shaping of his work is killed by force and exterior pressure.

A un hombre interiormente libre, y escrupuloso, se le puede destruir, pero no se puede hacer de él ni un esclavo ni una herramienta ciega.

am quite aware that it is necessary for the achievement of the objective of an organization that one man should do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.