self-directed choices Quotes

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

[Sometimes] I will go through periods where I will think 'Oh maybe I should do a commercial movie' and then I just think, someone gave me a really great piece of advice, someone from my agency weirdly, they said the only clients that are happy are the ones that just do what they want to do. So I just kind of do everything for myself.

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions