Empowering Quotes
-
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It's really empowering when you're reunited with people who share that.
-
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
-
At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
-
To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.
-
There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lowerlevel than was previously the norm. As you take your hands off the wheel, you need to be more vigilant and aware than ever about the decisions your team is making.
-
I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.
-
I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.
-
As a young woman, I just think there's something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.
-
I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.
-
I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.
-
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
-
I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.
-
Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.
-
In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.
-
Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
-
I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
-
Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.
-
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
-
I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.
-
I like my body so much more now since having my baby. It”s just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It”s been beautiful.
-
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.
-
'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
-
We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.
-
The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.
