Top 340 Autonomy Quotes & Sayings

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

It's one of the disadvantages of succeeding early. I missed simple things like having a driver's license. I think everyone has one. For so many people, a license is an obligation, but it wasn't for me. Licenses are often synonymous with autonomy, but I had my autonomy so early that I've had drivers at my disposal. It was never a priority.

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

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic had the autonomy revoked in 1989, and the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the recent war in Bosnia and Croatia, failed to address the issue of Kosovo's status.

What I found out is, I need complete autonomy. I can't have nobody looking over my shoulder saying I can't say this or that.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

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

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services.

At school, everything was left v. right, communists and fascists; what interested me was the discussion of identity, autonomy, federalism, and community.

Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.

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

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

Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

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

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.

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

I recently assured Public Sector Banks they will have total autonomy in taking business decisions.

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

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

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

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 surrender of self to the other.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

I can never thoroughly appreciate meals on ships because, away from land, I feel my autonomy is restricted.

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 voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

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

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

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

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

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

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.