Quotes About Autonomy

I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigoraring and a frightening realization.

To be responsibly self-directing means that one chooses—and then learns from the consequences. So clients find this a sobering but exciting kind of experience.

Can I freely permit this staff member or my son or my daughter to become a separate person with ideas, purposes, and values which may not be identical with my own?

Each man must resolve within himself issues for which his society previously took full responsibility.

I wanted to find a field in which I could be sure my freedom of thought would not be limited

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigorating and a frightening realization.

The good life, from the point of view of my experience, is the process of movement in a direction which the human organism selects when it is inwardly free to move in any direction.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Once she'd realized she'd never meet her mother's expectations, it didn't seem real important to meet anyone else's.

Once a mind has been set free, it would rather be destroyed than return to captivity.

But the autonomy or self-government of the community cannot exist without the autonomy of the factory, the school, and the city, of every form of social life.

I chose as my supervisor a professor who allowed me to continue to study what I wanted.

Hiçbir ?ey temsilinin d???nda vuku bulmaz," diye itiraz etti iki delikanl? ile sözünü esirgemeyen Yahudi bir k?z. "Herkes istedi?i temsili seçme hakk?na sahiptir.

You make your own party.

Por eso me quedo, porque puedo irme.

Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Imagine if Reconstruction had actually honored the citizenship of four million freedpeople—provided the education, political autonomy, and economic wherewithal warranted by their and their ancestors' hundreds of years of free labor. If, instead of continually re-fighting the Civil War, we had actually moved on to rebuilding a strong, viable South, a South where poor whites, too—for they had been left out as well—could gain access to proper education. Imagine

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

There's only one thing worth loving, my girl. Freedom. Always I have loved my freedom

One finds, through developing oneself, that the rectification of relationships will not be achieved by telling others what to do, but by following the path that is correct for oneself.

I go in alone, for there is no one for me, but I don't care, I tell myself; I'd expected no one. —Ruth