Autonomy Quotes

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. - Thom Mayne

And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool. - Stone Gossard

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. - Anna Quindlen

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. - Beverly Sills

[The new structure puts more responsibility in the hands of fewer leaders. Ballmer created the seven-group structure in 2002, and it's become one of the hallmarks of his nearly six-year tenure as CEO. The idea was to give division heads more autonomy to pursue product strategy. But the groups would sometimes stumble over one another as leaders carried out plans aimed at furthering their own products, though not necessarily others sold by the company.] This organizational structure makes it easier to hold executives accountable... The old organizational structure did not. - Ted Schadler

[Dialogue is] the only way of reducing and eventually ending the violence in Kosovo... not by independence for Kosovo, but for enhanced autonomy and status for Kosovo. - Robin Cook