Quotes About Autonomy

Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

I will choose my own fall, which is ascension

You can't rid yourself of freedom the way you'd rid yourself of lice, brother.

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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Taking responsibility means a person no longer blames outside circumstances, or other people, or past events for the conditions of his own life.

In the end, we are our choices.

All new hires had to directly improve the outcome of the company. He wanted doers—engineers, developers, perhaps merchandise buyers, but not managers. "We didn't want to be a monolithic army of program managers, à la Microsoft. We wanted independent teams to be entrepreneurial," says Neil Roseman. Or, as Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

The companies that solved the innovator's dilemma, Christensen wrote, succeeded when they "set up autonomous organizations charged with building new and independent businesses around the disruptive technology."9

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

It's just what Wendell Phillips said," she declared. "' The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Ho Chi Minn's dictum: "Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

Good leaders don't wait for official permission to try out a new idea. In any organization, if you go looking for permission, you will inevitably find the one person who thinks his job is to say "No!" It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

I can tell you. In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.

but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

The one thing she liked most about Henry Clinton was that he let her be silent when she wanted to be. She did not have to entertain him.

In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to.