The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
Quotes about detracts (14 Quotes)
The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
What this finding reflects is the dissonance of today's reality and yesterday's old ideas. There's the assumption that family for women detracts from work while for men it supposedly enhances their viability and stability.
I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it.
It causes us issues because it's diverting our attention from real needs to what we classify as vandalism. It detracts from the university's appearance to parents and visitors when it is done.
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
It's false, it detracts from the game and it doesn't add any meaning to it,
I'm not saying that the press is wrong to report any internal differences we have, but at the same time, I think it's our job to keep them from becoming public issues, for anything that detracts from the purely athletic aspects of the sport is bad for us.
Today, I will know the unadulterated joy of giving with no strings. I acknowledge that sometimes I hope for praise or reciprocation when I give ... and that that detracts from the joy of giving. Today, the giving will be my joy. I know that I will sow what I reap, but I will not sow for the purpose of reaping. I will sow for the joy of sowing.
I don't know all the details of what happened after the game, but certainly we don't condone activities such as that. That certainly detracts from a great bowl game and what the spirit of college football is all about.
If you make learning lecture-based alone, it detracts from the desire to know what's going on. You have to make it real for kids.
But I don't see why we have to take a central hall, for instance, and use in it a sculpture or painting. I think it detracts, somehow.
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.