Quotes About Autonomy

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

For the longest time I was trying to please others. I can blame the whole world for each film that went wrong but if I'm not happy about a project I cannot give my best.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that's how they develop. I promote their talent and let them make their own decisions.

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

My father doesn't like to promote me every time, and he wants me to build my own image.

Keep a check on your children, but do not force them to do something you wanted to do, or what you wish them to be. Be frank with them, know their interests and promote that too.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

I'm living proof that you can create your own life.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

I don't want to play a prop in a film.

I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.

The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.

It's nice to work with people who know how to mic drums right and how to record properly. But there's something to be said for doing it yourself.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.