Quotes About Empowerment

Re-examine all that you have been told... Dismiss that which insults your soul.

Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!

Read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body (Leaves of Grass preface)

Az egyenlÅ'ségrÅ'l – mintha bizony káromra volna, ha másnak is megadják ugyanazokat a lehetÅ'ségeket és jogokat, mint nekem, mintha nem volna saját jogaim nélkülözhetetlen része, hogy másnak is ugyanolyan jogai legyenek.

Zbunjuje to i užasava, kako bi me brzo ubio izlazak sunca, Kada ne bih mogao, sada i uvek, da izazovem izlazak sunca iz sebe.

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, Argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss what insults your very soul, And your flesh shall become a great poem.

Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude. —Lil J

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account.

Yeah, it's hard, baby It's hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it's hard baby It's hard right down to the very bone It's hard when you're a woman And you find yourself all alone I've been flapping and scrapping And running from door to door You know I've been flapping and scrapping, honey Running from door to door

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality

The maker culture in America, ever since the days of community barn raisers and quilting bees, often involved do-it-ourselves rather than do-it-yourself.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone." His

Just as combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery drove the Industrial Revolution, the combination of the computer and distributed networks led to a digital revolution that allowed anyone to create, disseminate, and access any information anywhere.

When you help build something, you own it, you're vested in it. That's far more rewarding than having it handed down to you."111

I've learned over the years that when you have really good people you don't have to baby them," Jobs later explained. "By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things.

Tenho simpatia pela força de capacitação da ingenuidade››, diz Atkinson. ‹‹Uma vez que eu não sabia que não podia ser feito, fiquei capacitado para o fazer.

The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission.

I designed the Apple I because I wanted to give it away for free to other people," said Wozniak.

A realm of intimate, personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested