Quotes About Autonomy

We all have a personal recipe for productivity. One person may need six cups of autonomy and just a pinch of collaboration. Another person may require heaps of sociability and noise, with just a teaspoon of occasional privacy.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.

We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.

I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.

When we were kids, we didn't have the luxury to take decisions of our life as the right was reserved for our parents. There were a lot of insecurities, not necessarily towards how we look but otherwise as well.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I resigned on my own, and during my time, the country enjoyed a period of great prosperity.

Nobody can shut the door in your face if you own the door.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on.

I'm not Drake's sidekick.

You can't 'control' a Mars mission from Earth. The Mars mission is going to have to be controlled by the people on Mars... There is just too much involved that is out of sight of Earth.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.