Empowering Quotes - Page 38

• The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Used, Harm

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Summit at the Stanford University in Stanford, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 13, 2015.

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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Mind

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• Having all those demons makes it interesting, for me. Coming back now and being completely sober is okay, but I do like going back into the messy area. It's an empowering thing to play now, but at the same time, I do like to play the dirty side more. So, we'll see if she slips, or something. Wendy is always on the edge.

  Drea de Matteo

  Dirty, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Self, People, Mind

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.

  Tony Hsieh

  Long, Culture, Passionate

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• We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.

  Zoe Helene

  Journey, Ayahuasca, Support

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• We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

  Judith Rodin

  Empowering Women, Urgency

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• Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Girl, Gay, Flirting

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Needs, Answers, World

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• With each choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you empower yourself. Authentic power is built up step by step, choice by choice. It cannot be meditated or prayed into being. It must be earned.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Soul, Energy

  Gary Zukav (2007). “Thoughts From the Seat of the Soul: Meditations for Souls in Process”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowerment

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• Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

  Tori Amos

  Storyteller, Songwriters, Vulnerability

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• If you can surrender your protection devices, in order to track the potentially raw and perhaps elusive emotions that are the song's DNA, then that is creative vulnerability, which is ultimately hugely empowering.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Dna, Order

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Two, Community, Identity

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

  Zoe McLellan

  Home, Son, Passionate

  "NCIS: New Orleans Actor Zoe McLellan: The Inspiration Equation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

  Sally Kohn

  Girl, Men, Boys

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• What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  People, Social, Discussion

  "May Cause Miracles". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

  Amy Richards

  World, Empowering Women

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• I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I'm continuing to do what I can to empower and inspire other women.

  Camila Alves

  Inspire, Continuing, I Can

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• It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition.

  Jean Houston

  Teaching, People, Community

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• When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

  Kathy Calvin

  Girl, Country, Wall

  "Kathy Calvin | President/CEO of United Nations Foundation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I believe that products should use technology to empower people of all abilities, to augment our minds and bodies, to make us better human beings.

  Tom Gruber

  Believe, Technology, People

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• We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

  Waris Dirie

  Children, Independent, Men

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• You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

  Tony Robbins

  Helping Others, Organization, Creative

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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