Quotes About Autonomy

And I mean you and nobody but you.

I like to choose. I have to care.

Well, I asked him. I said, 'Master, what can I do to make my work better?'" "No shit?" "No shit." "What'd he say?" "He said, 'I can't tell you anything about your work. You must do it all by yourself.'" "Ha.

We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough

I wasn't interested in world history, only my own. What crap. Your parents controlled your growing-up period, they pissed all over you. Then when you got ready to go out on your own, the others wanted to stick you into a uniform so you could get your ass shot off.

And when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness

Like most others in the world they believe that failure is caused by some factor besides themselves.

such absolute Notions of Liberty, that they allow of no Kind of Superiority of one over another, and banish all Servitude from their Territories.

The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of individual freedom and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling.

Why can't "They say" let every body settle their own affairs?

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you're a child.

But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their

the most dangerous kind of job stress stems from having "low control" over one's responsibilities.

Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out—have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority.

We can kill our son's confidence by making things too easy for him, by hovering, overprotecting, and over-functioning.

You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly. His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learnt to shoot without missing their mark and I have learnt to fly without perching on a twig.'

I wouldn't put myself under the democratic dictatorship even of angels and archangels.

H]e developed a private philosophy of total self-reliance, an unyielding internal sufficiency that requires no external support from others.

2. Atoms would like to be free, too, but they're not so pushy about it.

But if you are a person who needs no one's approval, you are probably crazy and live alone on an island or the top of a mountain somewhere.