Quotes About Empowerment

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Inspire people very selectively with sincerity and with respect. You want to increase your energy? Then want, inside your heart, to inspire others. It will lift you tremendously.

To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.

Leave me this freedom … to do something. To do a thing … a thing that does not destroy, but creates. Please, can I not be more than I am? Please. Do not find me.

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

Qué es lo que convierte a un soldado malazano en un miliciano tan peligroso? Se les permite pensar.

Look, Tammy, it's part of our mandate. We barrel in, we fuck things up, and then we walk away feeling good about our selves.

People either had strength or they didn't. The weak ones left her disgusted, welling with dark contempt. If they chose at all it was ever the wrong choice. They let the world break them time and again, then wondered – dull-eyed as this ox – why it was so cruel. But it wasn't the world that was the problem, was it? It was stepping into the stampede's path over and over again.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

It was a bright, clear day, and the car felt alive to her, as though the way she and the car moved together was a sort of destiny, and everything was happening exactly as it ought to.