Self Direction Quotes

“The world-wide discrimination against the autodidact has vitiated many people's confidence in determining their own goals and needs. But the same discrimination has also resulted in a multiplicity of growing minorities who are infuriated by this insidious dispossession.”
― Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

“A person whom seeks self-improvement must design specific tasks that instigate learning.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“There is no box. Only the one you put yourself in. You can do whatever you want. If you say you can’t, that is your choice. Choose better.”
― Richie Norton

“This is a time when some of the smartest people in business are eschewing the regimented rubrics of a nine-to-five job, and the safety of a predictable and sequential career, in favour of more independence and self-direction.”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace