Quotes About Autonomy

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.

The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.