#powered

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. ↗

— Bill Gates

#always #change #coal #come #electricity

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

— David Oyelowo

#bid #deny #empowered #our #past

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #economic #economic system #empowered #enterprise

I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and where fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you still are hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#gossip #perspective #self-esteem #women #gossip

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice. The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole. The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it. And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#act #action #actions #acts #choice

Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#change #empowered #happiness #inspirational #life

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong. ↗

— Lights Poxlietner

#empowered #inspirational #lights-bokan #lights-poxleitner #strong

Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #share-information #inspirational

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots