Quotes about Autonomy

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C. S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.

What seems more important are the private independent acts that become more necessary every day.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Luckily for me, I don't depend on seeing every patient who comes through my door to pay the rent, and so if someone is involved in an activity that I don't like, I just don't accept that person as a client.

I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.

The inability to allow a talent to do what he feels is going to inhibit his production. Always.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

There are certain things no one can do for you.