Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know?

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

The President is the ultimate role model.

One of the nice things about being chairman of the Civil Rights Commission is you can get people to listen to you. You can get the Federal Reserve to listen to you. You can get the governors to listen to you.

Although I have lost my gavel, I have not lost my voice. I will be heard from.

I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

If you can't see it, you can't be it.

We talk sometimes about the impact we hope we're having, that little girls - and boys - at home are watching us on TV. We can be role models.

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

You can't be what you can't see.

I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

I've never vied for power in the family before. Pointing a box at the garage door and saying "Open!" was never a big deal, but holding that television tuner and realizing I alone control what is flashed on the screen brings out the Iacocca in me.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

If you have power, you have to empower.

Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.

I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Power educates the potentate.

He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.