Quotes About Autonomy

I knew I had been made to lead the party and that I was colder in temperament than the others, but I was not only deeply disturbed, I had lost respect for and trust in the Parents in some vital way. I did not entirely believe them when they said they would consider changing their plan. Their utter indifference to our personal fate was obvious. And not believing some of what they said, I came to question everything they said. I wanted really only one thing and that was to get away from them.

We seek power so as not to fall under anyone else's power

If money can't buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?

I don't play by anybody's rules but my own.

Azért vágyunk a hatalomra, hogy ne kelljen mások hatalma alatt sínylÅ'dnünk.

If you live by your conscience you do what you want.

When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it.

Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you!

she had warned Kate not ever to let a man meddle with the housework. "He'll get all carried away with it," she'd said, "and your life won't never be your own after that.

Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.

You want to be independent?" he asked. He pronounced the word at a distance, somehow, as if he found it distasteful.

just meant I had to get up the next morning and tell Denise, 'Don't fix any breakfast for me; I'm moving out

If she was easily swayed, she thought, at least she had chosen who would sway her. If she was locked in a pattern, at least she had chosen what that pattern would be. She felt strong and free and definite.

That meant that Nancy was the grown-up, the one who got to decide everything. And it meant that Bean was the little, boring, poopy baby who didn't get to decide anything.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice

The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the authors of my fortune or misfortune; I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.

Maintaining his solitude... 'I'd rather be abandoned than engulfed

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy

three pillars of self-determination—autonomy, competence, and community

the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy, competence, and community—and

Here I have no master," an anonymous colonial woman was quoted by the secretary of the French legation as saying about her life with the Indians. "I am the equal of all the women in the tribe, I do what I please without anyone's saying anything about it, I work only for myself, I shall marry if I wish and be unmarried again when I wish. Is there a single woman as independent as I in your cities?

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them. ~ Seth Godin