Quotes About Autonomy

As long as i live i will have control over my being

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you

You're always doing too much or too little for them, not there when they want you to be, or too present and driving them insane. You have to let them

Simon, she was more independent

can rent a bed. It's either

Ultimately, I have no power over what he or any boy thinks of me.

liberty requires not just the abstract notion that you are free to choose your actions, but also the ability to exercise that freedom.

la libertad comienza cuando la gente se libera de la violencia, la intimidación y otros actos degradantes. Las personas deben ser capaces de adoptar libremente decisiones sobre su vida y tener los medios para llevarlas a cabo sin la amenaza de un castigo inaceptable o unas sanciones sociales draconianas.

I think you probably know what you're doing and whatever you do is your own business.

But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don't run the business, she would say. The business runs you.

Classical liberalism doesn't demand that you bow to it. It instructs you to make a decision for yourself. Then, through that process, we can figure out what is best for a society at large.

This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver's seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.