Quotes About Autonomy

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

A committee of one gets things done.

Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.