Autonomy Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by… — Abraham Maslow
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental… — Emily Dickinson
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to… — James Hillman
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has… — Malcolm Gladwell
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. — Pablo Neruda
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run,… — Daniel H. Pink
Felicity grimaced in agreement. â€œNo, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of oneâ€™s butler is in allowing for nocturnal… — Gail Carriger
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve… — Alain de Botton
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. — Daniel H. Pink
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy… — Sheryl WuDunn
Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their… — Jonathan Kozol
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines… — Sam Harris
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency,… — Glen Duncan
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less… — Eric Hoffer
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still… — Gabrielle Reece
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal… — Tracy Kidder

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