Richelle Mead Quotes

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I want to go out on my terms.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I'm not someone who wants to be second-guessed at all.

It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

I've always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.