Quotes About Autonomy

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

One thing that you find out later in life is that you have a lot more power than you think you do.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

Liberty is the most important thing.

I was always free because I felt free. It's very important to be free inside. The most important thing is to feel free.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

A motorcycle is an independent thing.

The motto of my life is, 'The best advice is no advice at all.'

In short, money with strings is worth less than money without strings—sometimes a lot less.

Among the many preconceptions that cannot be subjected to any empirical test because they are so subjective is the notion that third-party observers know better what is good for people than those people know themselves.

The proverb warnes you'',''dont bite the hand that feeds you,''but maybe you should,''if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates.

La follia è, in un senso quasi spaventoso, la massima libertà possibile perchè ti libera dagli obblighi nei confronti della società.

Trust your own story. Get the hell out of the way and let it tell itself

When the best leader leads, the people say "We did it ourselves." —Lao-tzu

But it would be more precise to say that the master aimed to transform the slave into an automaton by obliterating his sense of personhood.

Too many people, possibly even the majority of them, were all too content to let others do that thinking and analysis for them.