80 Autonomous Quotes
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Famous Autonomous Quotes
Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything. — Gabor Mate
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures. — Jean Piaget
Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. — Daniel H. Pink
A motorcycle is an independent thing. — Ryan Hurst
The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control. — Herbert Marcuse
People want autonomy and control in their lives, especially when it comes to their careers. — Paul Jarvis
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. — Daniel H. Pink
Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make — Stephen Covey
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it. — Frederick Herzberg
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. — Michel de Montaigne
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. — Bertrand Russell
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. — George Gurdjieff
Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations. — John Dewey
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. — Brock Yates
Short Autonomous Quotes
- Tesla is in the pole position in the United States to become the autonomous taxi network. — Cathie Wood
- The white race is the cancer of human history. — Susan Sontag
- The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. — H. L. Mencken
- Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. — Vaclav Havel
- My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars. — Elon Musk
- We are not completely autonomous. — Jerry Garcia
- The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents. — Warren Brown
- Mine is not an autonomous imagination. — Jay McInerney
- The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small. — Joe Torre
- Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends. — Lewis Thomas
Self Autonomy Quotes
You have the power to choose how you live your life; don’t let anyone else dictate it for you. — Joe Rogan
Don't let other people tell you what to do with your life. — MrBeast
Tell yourself what to do, and stop waiting for others to lay it all out. — Tim Grover
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. — Marshall McLuhan
Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner
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
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self. — Amy Bloom
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. — Carrie Brownstein
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
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy. — Jalal Talabani
People Writing About Autonomous
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Daniel H. Pink |
88 | 596 |
 Gabor Mate |
10 | 372 |
 Jean Piaget |
73 | 4712 |
 Herbert Marcuse |
100 | 529 |
 Stephen Covey |
722 | 7331 |
 Frederick Herzberg |
9 | 619 |
More Autonomous Quotes
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders? — Robert K. Greenleaf
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
Everything that moves will be autonomous someday, whether partially or fully. Breakthroughs in AI have made all kinds of robots possible, and we are working with companies around the world to build these amazing machines. — Jensen Huang
Tesla would be able to bring about autonomous driving much faster than most analysts and investors expect. — Cathie Wood
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. — Louis A. Johnson
DARPA’s original autonomous robot designs were developed as part of DARPA’s Smart Weapons Program decades ago, in 1983. The program was called Killer Robots and its motto offered prescient words: The battlefield is no place for human beings. — Annie Jacobsen
You could imagine something like a completely automated system for renting bikes that's just done completely over blockchain crypto-payments. And theoretically just sort of start it up, and it works completely autonomously. — Vitalik Buterin
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. — Paul Tournier
A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security. — Henry H. Arnold
We need to attack the false foundation of autonomous human reasoning that leads to evolution and millions of years, and proclaim that God's revealed Word is authoritative and its history of the world is foundational to Christian morality and the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Ken Ham
The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. — James Hollis
History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction. — Peter Singer
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word. — Greg L. Bahnsen
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless. — Greg L. Bahnsen
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God. — Francis Schaeffer
If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support. Or, put another way, autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice. — Karen DeCrow
Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too. — Jurgen Habermas
Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. — Tariq Ramadan
There are a lot of weapons that we've developed which we've pulled back from - biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc. This may be the case with armed autonomous robotics, where we ultimately pull back from them. — Peter Singer
The stronger the culture, the less corporate process a company needs. When the culture is strong, you can trust everyone to do the right thing. People can be independent and autonomous. They can be entrepreneurial. — Brian Chesky
The difference between romantic love and friendship love is that romantic love involves a lot of compromise. It is a very giving type of love. With friendship, you can be a little bit more autonomous. You are not expected to compromise, in the same way. Maybe that's why friendships tend to last longer. — Olivia Wilde
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy. — Sayings
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious. — Gerald May
When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity. — Jonathan Balcombe
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city. — Leon Krier
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible. — David Korten
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. — Vaclav Havel
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not. — Clement Greenberg
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments. — Christopher Hyatt
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develop alternative communities, autonomous forms of worker control, collective forms of health care, models of direct democracy and emancipatory modes of education. — Henry Giroux
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source. — Gerhard Richter
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes. — Ravi Zacharias
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. — Eric Hoffer
Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions. — Oliver Sacks
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology. — Greg L. Bahnsen
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. — Allan Bloom
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno
With autonomous cars, you're gonna see more consolidation. Once we have transport modules, you order off the phone and brands won't matter anymore. When brands don't matter, the auto industry ends. It's got another 20 years. — Bob Lutz
[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members. — H. L. Mencken
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