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Self-directed   /sɛlf-dərˈɛktəd/   Listen
Self-directed

adjective
1.
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment.  Synonyms: autonomous, self-reliant.





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"Self-directed" Quotes from Famous Books



... own word that with his departure for Leipzig begins that self-directed development which he was to pursue with the undeviating purpose and the wonderful result which make him the unique figure he is in the history of the human spirit. What, we may inquire, as he is now at the commencement ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
... profession. You needn't grin like that," he added, a little irritably. "There is a legitimate side, and a very wonderful side, only a brain like yours is not capable of assimilating it. You should have heard my paper to-night upon self-directed mesmeric waves." ...
— The Moving Finger • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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