Empowering Individuals Quotes

#1. The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children interpret as some type of retardation ... a person must have hope; this model restores self-esteem, thus empowering individuals to change.

Thom Hartmann

#2. One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

Christine Gregoire

#3. For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Joe Biden

#4. I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

Tanit Phoenix

#5. HOMELESSNESS ... is neither a disease nor crime ... but a very serious problem!

Timothy Pina

#6. I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

Todd Barry

#7. I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#8. The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream.
- Andy Paula, LifeBeyondNumbers

Andy Paula

#9. It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

Wilbur Olin Atwater

#10. ...so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed

Kat Banyard

#11. I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

Anne Wojcicki

#12. When I was eleven, I just got good.

Bobby Fischer

#13. I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

William Odom

#14. The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

Dave Sim

#15. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey

#16. It doesn't matter what you've done or seen. Every man's a child until he's a father. It's the way the world's made.

Daniel Abraham

#17. I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

Will Smith

#18. My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff - not to say I wouldn't want to do a comedy if the right comedy came along ... I'm an actor in Los Angeles, and I have a family I have to support.

Michael Cudlitz

#19. Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you're always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

Serinda Swan

#20. I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.

Alfred Lord Tennyson