Quotes About Autonomy

If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

Binding your self-worth to other people is a recipe for disaster.

Letting go doesn't mean not caring, it means not taking responsibility for what other people do, feel or think.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

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Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

I don't need friends.

All I've ever needed is myself.

I think about that with kids - you want to do everything for them, but you realize if you do everything, and you make it easy on them, they won't learn anything, and then they will walk around life needing their mamas all the time, and that isn't attractive.

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Life is best when lived your way and not as a negation of what you don't like.

We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.