Quotes About Empowerment

delegation without follow-through is abdication.

the definition of "manager" should be broadened: individual contributors who gather and disseminate know-how and information should also be seen as middle managers, because they exert great power within the organization.

Are you adding real value or merely passing information along? How do you add more value? By continually looking for ways to make things truly better in your department. You are a manager. The central thought of my book is that the output of a manager is the output of his organization. In principle, every hour of your day should be spent increasing the output or the value of the output of the people whom you're responsible for.

our role as managers is, first, to train the individuals (to move them along the horizontal axis shown in the illustration on this page), and, second, to bring them to the point where self-actualization motivates them, because once there, their motivation will be self-sustaining and limitless.

By elevating someone, we are, in effect, creating role models for others in our organization.

But in the end self-confidence mostly comes from a gut-level realization that nobody has ever died from making a wrong business decision, or taking inappropriate action, or being overruled. And everyone in your operation should be made to understand this.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

I don't let just anyone fine me, you know?

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.

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People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

A woman accentuates her beauty for her own self-esteem.

What have you got on your eyelids?" "Greater self-esteem!

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening. So how do you fight a ghoul, Ciri?

Stories like that are made by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it — I act. And I always get what I want. - Yennefer

A choice which should be respected, for it is the holy and irrefutable right of every woman.

Proprio in questo consiste il ruolo della poesia, Ciri. Parlare di ciò di cui gli altri tacciono.