Quotes About Autonomy

I don't have the habit of asking money from my parents.

You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend their money as they wish.

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

I love being able to play myself if I fancy, and take myself off as soon as I've had enough.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

I think anything you do on your own, so to speak, I think, is worth more than something that is maybe looked upon as gifted to you or handed to you.

But what is known is that California courts tend to do what they want.)

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog.

And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. - Mogget

We are influenced by our personality but not controlled by it.

You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

Do not put too much faith in government

Once we begin to think clearly about neuroplasticity we are inevitably drawn to the question of what we want from life – what we consider to be a good life. Each of us must answer that for ourselves. But we are best able to do so when we understand the threats that some substances and behaviours pose to our capacity to choose the lives we want.

I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.

True independence is not based on fear. It contains within it an ability to be close to others, coupled with a choice to be free and autonomous.

Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual, trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.

We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. What is the Autarch but a man who believes himself Autarch and makes others believe by the strength of it?