Work Autonomy Quotes

Surround yourself with strong people, make sure they fully understand your principles, give them room to work, reward good performance and correct bad performance—and be sure they know you can tell the difference.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

I don't feel the pressure of the market - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to work.

I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I don't give my employees hours - some of them come in at 7 A.M., some at 10 A.M., some stay until 6 P.M. or midnight. They have that freedom to come and go as they wish, although they all put in more hours than your 9 to 5.

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

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.

The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was unrelated to the level of job control, indicating that the spike during work hours was specifically caused by lack of choice on the job. People with little control over their work also experienced more back pain, missed more days of work due to illness in general, and had higher rates of mental illness-the human equivalent of stereotypies, resulting in the decreased quality of life common to animals reared in captivity.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and that has been paying my bills. Obviously a ''real job'' pays better than most universities will pay, but I've been very happy with this arrangement I get to do whatever I want, and I have no commercial pressures whatsoever doing this.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

Depending on what stage I'm at in my career, I either work or don't work because I've been offered one thing.

Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.

I work whenever I'm let.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else thinks you should.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

I enjoy my work, and I take what appeals to me.