self-direction

Example Sentences

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“It gives them a lot of ownership, self-direction, knowledge and self-confidence in these situations that they're definitely going to face as they go through life,” she said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

The coach of UCLA’s women’s gymnastics team built her extraordinarily successful career on encouraging self-direction and being 1% better each day at a form of expression that feeds your soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2018

They found that having a quiet ego was associated with self-transcendent values-- such as universalism and benevolence-- as well as self-direction and achievement.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2018

But it has been my experience as an educator and general smart-ish person that even smart people are not nearly as good at self-direction as they think they are.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2016

Cuvier was to the last a model student, of a temper at once most unflinching and most kind, happy in all his studies, happier still in his unequalled facility of mental self-direction.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert