Sharmila Tagore Quotes

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I am not driven.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

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

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

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.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I'm fully aware, fully on, and fully kind of designing everything that goes on with me. Anything that's happening is definitely on my table.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

Even though it is difficult, it is easier for me to make my own things, by myself.

Can't force anything. Can't try and make a play that somebody else is supposed to make.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

I own my life. I get to do what I want when I want.

No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.