Quotes About Autonomy

As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

I often say to my assistants, "Never trust anybody," but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else.

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.