Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elinor Ostrom

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.

Eliphas Levi

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

Deepak Chopra

Regular exercise is one of the most powerful ways to grow younger and live longer.

Deepak Chopra

If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

Deepak Chopra

The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.

Deepak Chopra

If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

Deepak Chopra

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

Deepak Chopra

Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.

Dominick Dunne

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

Dave Ramsey

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

Dave Ramsey

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love

In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question.

Abdul Kalam

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

Abdul Kalam

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Aaron Copland

You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.

Abraham Lincoln

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Abraham Lincoln

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

Laura Fraser

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

On the one hand, AT&T says this is going to be a very powerful competitor. On the other hand, they say they don't think they'll have many regulatory problems. I think they're in a state of denial. I think the regulators are going to be very tough on this.

If we play powerful and we play together, there's no reason we can't win the rest (of the games),

If these students are taking rigorous math, science and English, and they have time for these extras, then more power to them.

She stays back and waits, and has tremendous power.

She's very talented defensively, and she's got a lot of power.

She's not very tall, but she's got a lot of power in those legs.

If they did, UPS would own all the negotiating power.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.