Brandon Sanderson Quotes

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

I don't need adult supervision.

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.