Autonomy Quotes

• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

  Denis Waitley

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences - to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve". Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.

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• Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Engagement, Compliance

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.

  Thomas Szasz

  Responsibility, Self, Skills

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.22, Syracuse University Press

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• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  Judith Guest

  Running, People, Missing

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• The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

  Daniel H. Pink

  People, Creative, Three

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• The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

  Henry Cloud

  Team, Struggle, Responsibility

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• Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

  Jean Piaget

  Independent, Mind, Pressure

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.

  Marshall Gregory

  Teaching, Students, Ends

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• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

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• Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

  Gabor Mate

  Long, Impossible, Driven

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• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

  David Riesman

  Freedom, Men, Class

  David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, Reuel Denney (2001). “The Lonely Crowd”, p.307, Yale University Press

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• Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

  Esther Perel

  Two, Needs, Pillars

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Mean, Equality

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• People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

  Stan Shih

  People, Decision, Want

  "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Decision, Advice, Want

  "The Kevorkian Verdict". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. May 14, 1996.

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• Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

  Jalal Talabani

  Determination, Mean, Self

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• The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

  Georg Simmel

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Historical

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

  Thomas Frank

  Thinking, People, World

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• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Confused, Real

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza,

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• The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Country, Fey, Literature

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• America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, Teenager, Two

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Determination, Gun, Race

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.12, Beacon Press

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• Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

  Anne Truitt

  Love, Relationship, Discovery

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Ideas, Needs

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