Quotes About Autonomy

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.