Quotes About Autonomy

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. Still,

You love them all the more for their concern, but wish they'd get it through their heads that there are some people who don't need the constant companionship of other human beings in order to feel that their life has meaning." From "...He Didn't Even Leave a Note...

You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

How is it that in their personal lives, employees can be trusted to buy houses and cars, but at work can't requisition a $ 300 office chair without a manager's approval? If we thought about it for a minute, we'd realize this is stupid. Autonomy correlates with initiative and innovation. Shrink an individual's freedom and you shrink their enthusiasm and creativity.

Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded.

There's no secret about what drives engagement. From Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise to Dan Pink's Drive, the formula hasn't changed in sixty years: purpose, autonomy, collegiality, and the opportunity to grow.

There's no secret about what drives engagement. From Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise to Dan Pink's Drive, the formula hasn't changed in sixty years: purpose, autonomy, collegiality, and the opportunity to grow. Unfortunately, engagement levels haven't changed much either. It seems that every generation rediscovers the essential elements of human engagement and then does nothing.

must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.

You have the responsibility to shape your life. You are the person who pushes yourself forward or holds yourself back. The power to succeed or fail is yours alone.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

You have a choice about how you react when someone pushes your fear button. No one else controls how you think. No one else controls how you react. You alone do that.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought." —William Wordsworth

A woman alone who needs assistance is actually far better off choosing someone and asking for help, as opposed to waiting for an unsolicited approach. The person you choose is nowhere near as likely to bring you hazard as is the person who chooses you.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

Let the adjuster do his job. he does not need any help from you. It honestly ticks them off!

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.

Of course there's another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I'm just not going to take it.

No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.

Don't ask for help. Don't need anyone else, because they won't be there for you.

a truth about human society: not everyone wanted freedom. When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions.

Women, on the other hand, needed men like a fish needed a chariot.

We have lived as slaves most of our lives. We do not know how to make choices

You can only make choices for yourself. You can offer to help others find their way, but it is their decision if they will accept your help. You cannot force them to accept, even if you are in the right.