Self-Directedness Quotes

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

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

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.

I feel like I can control my own body as if I have a thermostat that I can adjust when I need to.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Well you don’t have to do it.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

Alia doesn't need my guidance regarding the kind of films she should do. Rather, she is quite a sorted individual who follows a strong instinct. And this seems to have worked in her favour.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.