Wernher von Braun Quotes

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I'm my own player.

I'm never going to let someone else tell me what I can and can't do.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad's room. What are we training them for? It's independence, because that's what being empowered is all about.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

I have my own strength.

People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.