Many of us were a little to early to assume that the most logical uses of the internet in authoritarian states would be to empower people. And to force them towards participation in politics. If you look at most authoritarian states, they are very grim places to live in. The only good thing about it is fast internet. That's the only way you can find some meaning in an otherwise very dark and gloomy life.
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.
That's really empowering - people recognize that I care about other things.
Just put on your makeup and get out there and do it.
The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
One of the great ironies is that the impact of the flattening world has not been to empower decentralized rural land, but to strengthen the cities in China and India and elsewhere that are gateways between those countries and the West. It's deeply wise for the Chinese to be pro-urban in terms of development. They're creating space for ideas and human capital to be developed.
I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
I like women who like each other and empower each other.
The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.
I almost feel like there's some kind of connection that I'm having trouble putting in to words, in the same sense that I'm learning things from my children still. I think, just like any relationship, if I choose to become twisted and bitter it can be a source of distress or discomfort. But I think I've come to terms with the fact that I would prefer to see it as a gift. And I would prefer to see it as something that empowers me rather than something that diminishes me in some way.
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.
The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.
The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.
I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.
The biggest compliments I've gotten have been from people who've seen the film Compliance at festivals and have said, "You know, I fully connected with these people. The movie made me very uncomfortable because I totally can see how this or that situation happened." They're, for lack of a better term, picking up what I was putting down. For me, it's very empowering to feel like we made something interesting.
Through the information the Pleiadians bring, we come into a new innate understanding of ourselves, and a new remembering. That really allows us to move forward on our path with that information. It's empowering. It puts things in perspective, back into place. It makes sense of everything that we are and what we're doing here, and what we have done and where we are going.
The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends to have a baby will be thrilled with the empowering message here.
To me the church's problem would be a hundred times worse if you felt everyone has written the church off, they don't want to know, there just aren't people to turn to. But it's exactly the opposite: there are such people. We have to find a way in our organizational life to get out of their way, clear the path to find more of these people, and empower them.
Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering.
