Quotes About Autonomy

Be your own Guru.

My father chose my name, and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way

I am the view I am the table I am the view I am the table

Life is ours, we live it our way.

A crab that sees itself as a crab be defined not by the shelter it seeks but by its very need to seek shelter. I be not a crab. My future be not depending on what I can find to act as a shell. I have many more choices. (Vol'jin Darkspear)

We do want to provide a physical and emotional release, but we also want to create an atmosphere where people are encouraged to think for themselves rather than accept what they've been told.

We never had a manager. We never had a booking agent. We never had a lawyer. We booked our own tours, paid our own bills, made our own mistakes and never had anybody shield us from either the truth or the consequences.

I MUST CREATE A SYSTEM OR BE ENSLAVED BY ANOTHER MAN'S." —WILLIAM BLAKE

Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.

To achieve authentic, sustained happiness, above all else you need to be in charge of your life, to be in control of who you want to be, and be able to make the appropriate changes if you are not.

In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks.

The autonomy enabled by a high-quality, free education system is just as important as the region's economic equality and extensive welfare safety nets, if not more so.

She believed that it was important to put trust in children, to hand over the reins to them from time to time, to let them decide things for themselves.

Of all the ways you can limit yourself, your own self-definition is the most powerful.

we lose the ability to make our own products, we lose control over our destiny. It's that simple.

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

We stand out, we strike out, we do our own thing, go our own way. The herd of independent minds, somebody called it.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic! "And, besides, that's not the purpose of going into business. "The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

He was running the business for him, not for me.

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?

Es ist komisch. Es gibt einen Moment, wo man mit seinen Figuren nicht mehr machen kann, was man will, wo die eine Art Eigenleben kriegen und man eigentlich nur noch hinter ihnen hinterherschreiben muss. Und das ist ein gutes Zeichen, wenn dieser Punkt erreicht ist. Weil das heißt, dass die Figur wirklich ein Leben gekriegt hat.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.