Quotes About Empowerment

Do people feel respected by me? Do I encourage others to take initiative, ask questions, and contribute their own ideas?

Things happen to us all the time. You don't have much choice about that. But where we do have choice is in what we do with what happens.

One fateful day, expecting high praise from my advisor for some work I felt great about, I instead heard from him: "Marilee, this is just not acceptable." At that moment something new happened. Instead of tearfully wondering what was wrong with me, I took a deep breath, and becoming calm and curious, simply asked him "OK, how do I fix it?" That simple shift took me from feeling powerless to being confident enough to take constructive action.

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl

What can I do to get people more engaged? What can I do to get people working collaboratively? What do others need from me? What do they have to contribute that I haven't been noticing?

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom

Không ai có th? thuy?t ph?c ng??i khác thay ??i. M?i cánh c?a c?a s? thay ??i v?n ch? có th? m? ???c t? bên trong b?n thân m?i ng??i. Dù b?ng lý l? hay s? lôi kéo tình c?m, b?n c?ng không th? m? cánh c?a ?ó c?a ng??i khác.

On the other side of fear lies freedom

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

What your mother left undone, women who are not your mother may do. Women who are not your lover love you.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

It's not about the elimination of fear. Rather it's about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.