Quotes About Empowerment

If something works for you, you continue to do it. I did a bunch of pictures for 20th Century Fox when Alan Ladd was over there, but I set the budgets so low that they'd approve and I'd deliver the film. They would have no say in it, which is the kind of arrangement I liked.

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.

Never be afraid to expose a weakness in yourself. Exposing a weakness is the beginning of strength.

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.

Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Every day in every way, I'm getting better. —EMILE COUE

As an old adage advises, "If you really want to get something done, you've got three options: do it yourself, pay top dollar, or forbid your teenagers to do it.

a)What causes it to be desirable. b)What causes it to be possible. c)What causes this to be the appropriate path. d)What makes me/us capable. e)What makes me/us deserving.

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

How the hell can you be liberated and accept alimony?" I said. Again the smile, innocent, beautiful, glorious, and satanic. "Exploit the oppressor," she said.

In my experience, nothing good happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington become mobilized, organized, and energized to make it happen. Nothing worth changing in America will actually change unless you and others like you are committed to achieving that change.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

If God made the boy a creature of extreme and restless energy, with an inquisitive and eager mind, a sensitive little heart, and a romantic imagination, it is up to you (Cub leaders) to make full use of these insted of crushing them.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

See, Matt, there's two kinds of people," he went on. "And the difference is in how they see themselves. One guy says to himself, 'I'm the boss of circumstances.' The other guy says, 'I'm the victim of circumstances.'...And you know what?...They're both right.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.