Quotes About Autonomy

It's very important to say no to stuff you don't like because then you won't be able to do justice to it.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.

I don't have to justify myself every time I go to Israel.

I don't have to justify my behaviour.

I don't want to Kanye it, but I listen to myself a lot.

I'm not so keen on letting my car drive itself.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.

I wanted to retire on my own terms. I wanted to leave before they kicked me out.

Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There's nobody to run it by.

I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

Anyone should have the right to say no if they don't want someone to kiss them or touch them or date them or anything.

A big thing to me was to be able to be in a situation where I could speak my mind freely especially when it came to my character. Get the actual right feedback and not have too many chefs in the kitchen and allow me to be me.

You let a guy take care of business. You leave him in a space. You don't want to run up to him and say, Yo, man, you can do this. You can knock this free throw down.' You just let a guy do what he does.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.