Quotes About Autonomy

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You decide.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.

It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

If you're not working on behalf of your own mission and purpose, you're working on behalf of someone else's.

It is absolutely imperative that you as a negotiator understand the importance of this point. You do NOT need this deal, because to be needy is to lose control and make bad decisions.

art"? Simply stated, give control away when you don't need it, so you can get some back when you do!

What we will allow—"Feel free to join us for your next meal as soon as the lawn is mowed." What we will do—"I'll be glad to read you a story as soon as you've finished your bath." What we will provide—"You may eat what is served, or you may wait and see if the next meal appeals to you more.

The best solution to any problem lies within the skin of the person who rightfully owns the problem.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

In a self-organized team, individuals take accountability for managing their own workload, shift work among themselves based on need and best fit, and take responsibility for team effectiveness. Team members have considerable leeway in how they deliver results, they are self-disciplined in their accountability for those results, and they work within a flexible framework.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way.

He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self.

Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.