Quotes About Autonomy

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words.

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be. And I do think, over the years, I've developed a need for control.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

The TaskRabbit community provides thousands of individuals access to the kind of economy that puts them in charge of their own lives and income. TaskRabbit offers a new model of work, one that makes it possible for people to set their own schedules, establish their own rates, and use their talents and skills to earn a living on their own terms.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

You can give them the opportunity to thrive, but when it comes to finding happiness or success, kids are really on their own.

I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.

Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

After a time, all children have to be on their own. Though as parents you always want to cushion them, however, when life throws new challenges, they have to take their own calls.

If you aren't free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren't free at all.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.