Quotes About Autonomy

I am working hard and I will get married when I feel like it.

Companies can't offer every employee a vertical rise through the ranks, and some employees' careers will level off. Without the prospects of further advancement, how do you keep these people satisfied throughout what might now be a longer working life? By providing them with an increased level of autonomy.

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.

Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Perhaps the majority of human beings never think of standing by themselves, and choosing their own employments, till the sentence has been regularly promulgated to them, 'It is time for you to take care of yourself.'

Till 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai,' I was involved in everything from casting to scripting. Then I shifted to a separate house.

Before moving to L.A., I was working with a lot of people who were manipulating me, where they either wanted to put things out immediately or didn't - I was on everybody else's time frame. But once I was on my own, I was like, 'You know what? I'm going to do this right and take my time, and I'll put things out only when I'm ready.'

Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.

Even when I was going through difficult times, I never really thought about relying on others.

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on 'Moral Orel' and 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole,' and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said 'Change this,' or 'You can't do that,' or 'We'd like to see this.'

The truth is women have a tendency to say 'yes' even when we're at tipping point. The challenge is saying 'enough'.

Fathers always give tips. My dad also gives me, but at the end, he says the decision has to be mine.

I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.

People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.