Quotes About Autonomy

do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

it is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our own actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment. I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you.

Don't let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

I'd rather struggle and fail on my own than be coddled as a slave.

You'll have to learn to live with that fact and the fact is that I don't hand out descriptions of my life to anyone who asks!

Then you ought to know you can't offload responsibility on someone else. You have to be able to take care of yourself when shit goes down.

If you wish to remain above the forces here, do not let anyone's disapproval dictate your actions.

Nix et al. (1999) showed in experimental studies that whereas task success can produce happiness, only success at autonomously motivated tasks maintained or enhanced vitality. Finally, in new research, Bernstein and Ryan (2001) argued that subjective vitality can be affected by contact with nature.

If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.' 'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

Bauman argues that most people "slip" into the roles society provides them, and he is very critical of any implication that "faulty personalities" are the cause of human cruelty. For him the exception—the real "sleeper"—is the rare individual who has the capacity to resist authority and assert moral autonomy but who is seldom aware of this hidden strength until put to the test.

Yet it is a fact, not entirely lost on management consultants, that some people would rather work twelve hours a day of their own choosing than eight that are prescribed. Provided, of course, that the work is interesting. That was the main thing.

si no se confía en que una mujer tome decisiones sobre su propio cuerpo, ¿cómo se la puede ver como autónoma en lo que respecta al resto de su vida?

Since for most of her life my mother's mind, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, had not been hers to make up, she was finding it difficult to come to a decision

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

Kendi kafanla düÅŸünmeyi öÄŸrenmelisin.

I do not ask much, only Total Power

Do not let other people invade your personality. Remember that every human being is a unique phenomenon, and worth developing. You will meet many who have no resources of their own, and who will try to fasten themselves upon you. You will find others eager to tell you what to do and think and be. But it is better to go apart and learn to be yourself.

but he had been round the world enough to know that a man has to shift for himself in it, and that if he gets the worst of it, there is nobody to listen to him holler.

Play your music, read your books, think your own thoughts, and never let yourselves be drawn into an argument! Not an altogether satisfactory way of life, but the only one possible in times when the world is changing so fast that parents and children may be a thousand years apart in their ideas and ideals.

love. It was good to do with it, but also good to be able to do without

You mustn't fool yourself with the idea that you could hire experts to attend to things; for how could you know that a man was an expert, unless you knew as much as he did? Some day your foreman might drop dead, or some other fellow would buy him away from you, and then where would you be? Be your own expert, said Dad!

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.