When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Democracy is not just the right to vote it is the right to live in dignity.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

The more hardcore conservative you are the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper competition the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real your worldview will come crashing down around you.

One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.

Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about identity. They're female empowerment stories. So I'm exploring that through my work.

One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.