Quotes About Autonomy

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

The promises that globalism is the solution, the promise that government's going to make your life better if you just give up your freedoms, the promises that we know better than you on how to make your lives better, have been rejected.

The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much prefer bottom-up solutions.

We are not exercising our democratic rights properly. We need to stop looking for solutions in others.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

The best organizations are filled with people who have a wealth of choices as to what work they choose to do. We need to give them every reason possible to solve the world's problems.

Your children should know that you're always there for them, and that they can call on you when needed. But give them the opportunity to learn to solve their own problems.

We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

I think some things that are better for me are not good for other people, innit. They need to run theirself. Everybody should run theirself.

When I was little, I would open up lawnmowers and try to make them go faster. I wasn't strong enough to do some things, so I'd wait for my dad to get home from work to help me. He was great, but he never really encouraged me, and I'll be the same if I have kids: I'll leave them to do their own thing.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.