Authority And Attitude Quotes

“The problem with authority is that if you leave it lying around, others will take it away from you.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

“If anyone has a problem with Blaire then they need to take it up with me. She has a job here as long as she wants one. The three of you may not like it but I personally don’t give a flying fuck. So get over it. She doesn’t need this shit right now. Back off. Are we understood?”
― Abbi Glines, Never Too Far

“While in principle groups for survivors are a good idea, in practice it soon becomes apparent that to organize a successful group is no simple matter. Groups that start out with hope and promise can dissolve acrimoniously, causing pain and disappointment to all involved. The destructive potential of groups is equal to their therapeutic promise. The role of the group leader carries with it a risk of the irresponsible exercise of authority.
Conflicts that erupt among group members can all too easily re-create the dynamics of the traumatic event, with group members assuming the roles of perpetrator, accomplice, bystander, victim, and rescuer. Such conflicts can be hurtful to individual participants and can lead to the group’s demise. In order to be successful, a group must have a clear and focused understanding of its therapeutic task and a structure that protects all participants adequately against the dangers of traumatic reenactment. Though groups may vary widely in composition and structure, these basic conditions must be fulfilled without exception.
Commonality with other people carries with it all the meanings of the word common. It means belonging to a society, having a public role, being part of that which is universal. It means having a feeling of familiarity, of being known, of communion. It means taking part in the customary, the commonplace, the ordinary, and the everyday. It also carries with it a feeling of smallness, or insignificance, a sense that one’s own troubles are ‘as a drop of rain in the sea.’ The survivor who has achieved commonality with others can rest from her labors. Her recovery is accomplished; all that remains before her is her life.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.”
― Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

“when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners’ death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical scientists in other countries whose decision-makers have come under Wessely’s thrall.”
― Michael Hanlon

“Power makes people ignore your sins. There is not much difference between acquiring power and achieving sainthood.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“God is all powerful.
God is mighty.
God is has power over all rulers and authorities.”
― Laillah Gifty Akita

“You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.”
― Ashish Patel

“The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision.”
― Charli Frisky, My Ex-Boyfriend Is A Piece of Cr*p ...And Other Whimsical Stories

“Your life has only one authority and that's you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, A Push in Perception

“You see, I have trouble with authority. Whenever someone tells me to do something, I get the sudden and very strong urge to do the exact opposite. Sometimes I can control it.
But mostly I just lose.”
― Mina Rehman, A Princess's Guide to Dragon Domestication

“Load of badges on an uncreased chest,
Blood of every soldier is brutally dismayed”
― Moeeza Azeem, Fragments of Nothingness

“A coward is brave only when armed with power and authority; a truly courageous one can fight even when unarmed”
― Mahua Moitra

“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.”
― Diane Samuels, Kindertransport: A Drama

“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“Love isn't about what you do for me. Love is where I see myself in relation to you.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life.”
― Christopher G. Moore, Spirit House

“The true definition of "Supremacy" is far removed from 'dominace', but the ability to command respect, the very essence of wisdom and knowledge.”
― Tendai Kasusu

“I-ați explicat instrucțiunile pentru candidați?”, mi-au șuierat pe la urechi cuvintele președintelui comisiei de examen, la care am răspuns cu un „Da” de confruntare. Moment în care președintele iese val-vârtej din sala de examen și mă lasă în fața ochilor cu candidatul: o femeie în jur de 40 de ani căreia îi țâșnesc lacrimile, mâinile îi tremură, respirația îi este bolovănoasă. Cuvintele care îi ies din gâtlej zgârie liniștea spațiului cultivată de ceilalți 14 candidați care așteaptă să îi răspund: „Și eu acum ce fac?”
― Carmen Neagu nee Eni, Tezaur de greșeli. Ghid de supraviețuire pentru profesori