Empowerment Quotes - Page 10

• Black pride. Gay pride. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant pride. All of these things, you know, they're polarized, aren't they? The red and blue states. Christians, that's the most insidious aspect of it, giving into this great Christian image of America. That's the most frightening thing of all. Whereas in the past they're trying to find things that unite us, to minimize the differences. Whereas today there's this belief in empowerment and entitlement by maximizing differences. I'm not so sure that that's healthy.

  Robert Towne

  Christian, Pride, Gay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

  Kofi Annan

  Taught Us, Race, Goal

  "International Women's Day". Official Records, www.ontla.on.ca. March 8, 2011.

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• I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like the future of the music business is in empowering artists to have better and better tools to communicate with their fans. We want to be people who are saying to artists, "Look, you don't need that company over there to release your album. You can do it this way." Almost more of a band partnership than a label-artist relationship. Not about ownership of content, but about empowerment.

  Zac Hanson

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.

  Reginald Ray

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• People have so many expectations when they go out on stage, so many wishes about what their night is going to be: if they're going to meet that person, have a fun time with their friends, have a good high, hear good music. People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

  Robyn

  Fun, Night, Expectations

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing, Joy, Harmony

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.219, Hay House, Inc

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• Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Leadership, Roles, Fundamentals

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• A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

  Richard Engel

  War, Iran, Iraq

  "Engel:'I've seen so many ugly things'". "War Zone Diary 2008", www.nbcnews.com. July 6, 2008.

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• What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard to the Black Empowerment process in the case of small and medium business, is shortage of credit or difficulties of accessing credit.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Support, Black, Needs

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowerment… I speak from a very truthful and sincere place…with love

  Stacy Barthe

  Hurt, Pain, Light

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• Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Mean

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• Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.

  Joey Reiman

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

  Judy Garland

  Psychics, Rainbow, Bird

  Song: Over the Rainbow {from The Wizard of Oz}, Album: Spotlight on Judy Garland (Great Ladies Of Song)

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• You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Running, Agency, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier; they are better fed; their income, savings, and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is true of communities and, eventually, whole countries.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Country, Community

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• You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

  Alan Moore

  Differences, Principles, Want

  "Discuss: Alan Moore turned down millions to sign off on 'before Watchmen'...is he a hero or a fool" by Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Evil

  "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, People, Literacy

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• Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Soldier, Hospitality

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• The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Leadership, Responsibility, Circles

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• The choice to be used as an instrument of love, right here, right now, is a choice for personal empowerment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Focus, Black, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

  Narendra Modi

  People, India, Want

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• The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Leadership, Empowering, Process

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