Empowered Quotations

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Making empowered decisions means taking risks. Many employees fear being reprimanded, or even fired, for making what management might view as a bad decision.

One repressive state after another has had to face the dilemma of wanting abundant Internet for economic advancement, while ruing the ways in which its citizens can become empowered to express themselves fearlessly.

Nobody has had the courage to say this is wrong. You are empowered to say this is wrong ... Stop this cover-up! Stop this cover-up!

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

I am confident that the power of our development studios are further empowered to create more new and innovative titles.

CDPHP recommends women have their first mammogram by age 40 and then every one to two years thereafter. Knowing that the data backs the success of these screenings, women should feel empowered to take control of their health.

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

I can't imagine this can't be re-engineered to do a better job. We are talking about a group of people who are probably for the most part not English-speaking, who probably don't feel empowered in the same way as other people.

I can think of nothing more appropriate for this occasion than to welcome and honor Senator Harkin for his vision and compassion in championing passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act 16 years ago. An entire generation of empowered citizens is deeply indebted to him.

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Having the music and the candidates out here forms a sense of community. We want people to be excited and feel empowered to go out in force and vote.

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

I think that there is a great deal of interest in delineating more specifically what the White House would be empowered to do under this resolution, and I think it is also in our interest in insuring that we have exhausted our other options, working with the United Nations, working in a multi-lateral fashion,

I was a Green Day guy because the first DVD I bought was Green Day's 'Bullet In A Bible,' the live album. That really empowered me to be not just a drummer but a performer. It's a really crucial part of why I wanted to be in a band.

Recognition is another important element of empowerment. Employees who make empowered decisions should be recognized and rewarded. Celebrate them. Feature them in the company publication. Give them a prime parking spot near the front door for a week. Throw a pizza party. By doing so, you are sending a message to the rest of the workforce that empowerment is important.

Patients need to be empowered to ask the question,

We're big on consumer protection in Wisconsin except when it's government service. I get calls from all over the state. There are people empowered in these positions to do whatever they want with applications.

We have to remember that this panel is empowered to make a decision, but we the people have the power to do something about these injustices.

We could have a governor who is empowered and chastened at the same time. He'll be empowered if some of his measures pass, but chastened because he had to work hard for it and his popularity was cut in half.

We are delighted to officially enter three dynamic Florida markets through the acquisition of First Florida. First Florida has a team of talented bankers and investment experts who are empowered to deliver financial solutions and make local decisions that best suit their customers' needs. Through our partnership with First Florida, we can increase the resources of the local bank so they can offer even more robust products and services to both commercial and retail consumers in these rapidly growing markets.

We are not confined to the Starr referral, ... That was the debate we had on the floor with the resolution that empowered us to review the material from the independent counsel. Mr. (Rick) Boucher (D-Virginia) and the Democrats wanted a very narrow scope. And we wanted a wider scope. And we prevailed. And so we are not bound by the parameters of the Starr referral.

Volunteers really are the heart and soul of our communities, but many potential volunteers think that opportunities to become involved are not open to them, or that red tape is standing in their way. This strategy is all about removing barriers, so that anyone who wants to volunteer can feel empowered to take part.

When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.

Wal-Mart has a conservative corporate image, and we knew they wouldn't be thrilled. But we're hoping that the company will be pleased once they see how fun the pictures are and how empowered the women at Wal-Mart feel.

U2 have inspired and empowered millions with their music and by speaking out on behalf of the poor, the powerless and the oppressed.

Women in recent years have been feeling more empowered to do a lot of things they might not have done in the past, and motorcycling is definitely one of those things.

Women are empowered to be very pro-active about their health like they weren't just 10 years ago. We can make a lot of lifestyle changes without having an appointment at a doctor's office.

Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Beware of the person that is so empowered they ask questions that only actions can answer.-

At the very least, the freedom that Congress is empowered to secure includes the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a freeman means at least this much, then the 13th Amendment made a promise it cannot keep.

Consumers will be empowered by this legislation because it would create a healthy insurance environment that fosters increased competition and product innovation, rather than the present patchwork state regulatory system, which has not kept pace with the marketplace needs of the 21st century.

Customers like choices. They want to be empowered by what a la carte gives them.

empowered folks that had never been empowered before.

The resistance to globalization has a new quality today. You have populist leaders in developing countries who are empowered by high oil prices and you have a protectionist climate in the rich countries. The two trends reinforce each other and could slow globalization.

An empowered hero teaches kids the value of goodness and hope in the world.

You've vested authority in your executive director. Two minutes ago when you adopted those bylaws, you empowered him.

They fear that, if employees are empowered to make decisions, their roles in the organization will be diminished or eliminated.

A committee of five secretaries, headed by the cabinet secretary, will now look into the process and submit their recommendation to the empowered group of ministers within two weeks.

It was cool to play an empowered woman, one of the most important persons on the planet.

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very good move.

It's interesting to me because she is empowered when she's dressed up,

The interesting cause of organized labor's demise is perhaps earlier victories -- the vast majority of Americans are now empowered and skilled to the extent that they do not need collective bargaining,

In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal.

In Africa we are emerging. We have taken responsibility, and know change is required so that we can be empowered in the way of human and capital infrastructure. And then America and Europe and ourselves will be the better for it.

But if you can build a culture whereby people are empowered and they want to be empowered, it will work. It sounds like it's working for this particular company.

Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek.

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

If families are knowledgeable about the disease and know what to expect, they can be more empowered in dealing with the disease. The most important thing is they get linked with helpful community resources they may need.

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

All I have to do is say, 'You are empowered to go fulfill the mission,' and it gets done,

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

The empowered mind gravitates towards freedom and helps you break free of all limitations.

Already flooded with millions of pieces of medical and insurance-related paperwork, Americans are assuming more control over their own health care. Currently 82 percent of American households are spending significant time organizing, filing and reconciling their health care information. We will break through that clutter of information and consolidate it, so consumers can be empowered to make the right decisions and save time and money.

You will have a fully empowered government with a sense of direction and purpose.

The freedom she had, once out of her cage -- it empowered her,

The constitution of Zimbabwe guarantees all individuals the right to legal representation and lawyers are empowered and obliged to represent their clients.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.