Quotes About Autonomy

Would you like to walk to the car? Or I can carry you there. It's your choice." Then she'd need to make it happen. So yes, we want to always connect with our children emotionally.

When we give a child the opportunity to decide how he should act, rather than simply telling him what he should do, he becomes a better decision maker. And that's one of the ultimate goals of parenting, isn't it?

The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

People have own mind, own views.

Personally, many of my views are not in the mainstream as I am a centrist-libertarian.

To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of their own lives.

My limits are what are comfortable to me. We are all individuals and have different views and perspectives, and I do what I feel is most comfortable and OK for me.

I have already disassociated myself from my husband's views.

I am extremely fortunate to have such talented people as my parents. I will always turn to them for advice. But I am my own person and have my independent views.

I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.

In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.

Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.