Quotes About Autonomy

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

We have never been colonized, because of our attitude... We have the confidence, the moral authority, and our people are also enough to tell us what they want to tell us.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.

Activision has their own games. Blizzard has our own games. We're not going to go in and fire their people and they aren't going to come in and fire any of ours.

Ours is one of the last independent companies that offer a place you may write down your thoughts free from having to worry about whether they are offensive to one group or another.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

We want to control our own destiny and take responsibility for our own outcomes.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I don't need to explain my outfits.

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.

I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

If you've got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to get yourself out of their hair occasionally.