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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012

Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010

Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mind is conscious too of having an influence over itself, and of possessing a self-directing energy, a spontaneous power, and its consciousness of responsibility is predicated on this power of spontaneity.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

We can make its impulses follow a rut, so to speak, but we cannot make them free and self-directing.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John