Thom Yorke Quotes

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I understand that people believe that they are impotent and can do very little.

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself.

I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

Alone I'm nothing.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.