Quotes About Autonomy

I think that putting merchandising into the hands of the artist themselves is one of the best things for the artist.

The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

If you don't live your life, then who will?

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.

I used to think, 'Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.' But what I've learned is that you can't take ownership for how they're feeling, no matter how badly you want to.

I definitely don't need therapy in life because I have gone through every little corner of my life.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

There are things one must do for oneself.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Things happen so quickly. We don't have time for one person to tell everybody what to do. Everybody needs to know what to do in those situations.

I'm an independent thinker. I am a woman. I am a Republican. And I think for myself, and I decide where I vote and how I vote.

I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.