Quotes About Autonomy

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

I am very into making up my own rules.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

I manage to live the way I want to, and I've never had to worry about finding jobs.

I think the rest of the world would like to tell us how to manage our own environment. And I think that anybody in America can tell you that we're best to decide what America should do.

I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.

I don't like having managers.

As far as managing, I've been managing myself from the beginning, so if I don't start speaking up for myself, nobody will.

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

I'm not a control maniac.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I just never was the marrying kind.

You have no right to make jigsaws of people.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on them.

Her knowledge of her own mind was what he admired about her. To expect her to bend to his wishes would be to expect her to be other than herself.

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.