Quotes About Empowerment

I don't remember the piece we played, but to this day I recall how she made me feel. She had only said "Yes." She never said "No." She taught by encouragement alone, and this allowed me to gradually drop all my fear and hesitation and enter into the spirit of the playing itself.

Better to lose your husband than waste your life

Education is not about acquiring knowledge, but about learning how to think for oneself and apply that knowledge to make a positive difference in the world.

Education is the gift that keeps on giving, providing the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle life's challenges and pursue one's dreams.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I think the greatest legacy of the civil rights movement is that it made America a better place for all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Education is painful. It means changing the way you think, challenging your truths, saying it in a different way. It is life changing. You will be unsettled, pushed and pulled. So empower yourself and take on the challenge.

A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.

Having Khidr as a master gives the disciple a transcendent dimension. It confers a 'personal, direct, and immediate bond with the Godhead' . . . Each disciple becomes what Khidr is, the center of the world.

Pero, al mismo tiempo, cuando cada persona se siente al mando, aun a escala local o temporal, esa persona toma en serio su responsabilidad. Esa persona es "dueña" de su trabajo, o de una parte del parque o de la situación. Y eso la hace preocuparse y tomar en serio el bienestar del invitado. Así es exactamente como se sienten los integrantes del reparto.

We British are used to being ruthless, of course, but only the men. The women aren't. We don't grab. We shouldn't . But we have to, to make some room for ourselves.

As important as finding the Why behind your Purpose and Goals is knowing the Who. We will often do more and endure more for people we love than we will endure for ourselves. Find your Why and your Who and you will endure and overcome anything.

Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.

God has given us the tools and the resources to give hope to the hopeless. But unless we take those tools out of the closet, millions of innocent men, women, and children will continue to die without knowing that hope.

It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.

Ownership of the standard should be in the hands of those who do the work.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

Everybody has their cross to bear, and everybody has their issues. But it still never once occurred to me that I'm not as good as everyone else. And that's a gift I wish I could give to every girl.

If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.