Quotes About Empowerment

With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

I never liked being ordered around - which, of course, was an overreaction. I eventually found out that I didn't mind being ordered around at all when it was by someone who knew what he was doing.

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I want people to think I'm sexy, but to know also that I've got an ordinary body and not feel intimidated.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman - then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Managers develop organisations; leaders develop people.

I think there is a need to have more women running companies, but you can't... appoint women just to appoint women, just to satisfy a particular condition. What you want more than anything is to develop women in the organisation who will, when they get to the top, be fully capable of delivering and doing the job effectively.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

It's not just about showbusiness - everywhere you go people are discriminated against. And if by having an organised voice against inequality and a lack of diversity we might be able to push that down - how brilliant would it be?

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.