Quotes About Autonomy

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

Upon my eighteenth birthday I was given three choices: 1. Join the church, and live at home. 2. Move out and live on my own. 3. Move into the single men's home.

Letting go is recognizing when your need to control is controlling you and choosing to release control.

The more responsibility you take for your choices, the less regret they're likely to cause you.

Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

Nature programmed us to think for ourselves, take risks, and seize unexpected opportunities. This in turn suggests that if an organization wants to encourage such behavior, the most important thing it can do is to identify and stop doing whatever is currently inhibiting it. To put it bluntly, it should get off people's backs.

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

I've narrowed it down to nobody

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

El liberalismo político y económico depende de la confianza en que los individuos pueden manejar sus propias vidas. Se les da poder político y libertad económica sólo en la medida en que se piensa que son capaces de usarlos sabiamente.

La razón es una facultad del individuo, y el respeto por la razón y el individualismo se desarrollaron a la par durante la Ilustración.

of why we are born, what our life means, why we die as we do. The right to control our own death, tragically, is all that our Religion of Self has left us.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Her mother, by showing her off all through childhood, had trained into her the instinct to defeat the expectations of others.

When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don't want any of them." William

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.