Quotes about Autonomy

You must do it alone.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

With few exceptions, the only instances in which mainstream firms have successfully established a timely position in a disruptive technology were those in which the firms' managers set up an autonomous organization charged with building a new and independent business around the disruptive technology.

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. Those

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. There

A human being should never become a means to an end.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond.