"Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person."

-- John Roderick

#Jobs Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Parent Quotes

“In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.”
“The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
“Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.”
“To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.”
“If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people, and does not pray for them, will never come to know the grace of God.”
“I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.”

Source : "Irving Azoff's Wife on Ari Emanuel Feud: 'I Wish Ari Success and Happiness'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 26, 2013.
“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”
“Wanting and needing are two different things.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.193, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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