Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all the way through life. Their lessons are easy to assimilate."

Charlie Munger

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

Charlie Munger

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Charlie Munger

Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

Charles Horton Cooley

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Charles Garfield

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Charles Frazier

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

Charles Fleischer

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.

Bill McKibben

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

Bill McKibben

We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

Bill Maher

This is a powerful message from our government: we will not be intimidated by bombs; we will not be intimidated by poison; this is America, if you're a violent, paranoid lunatic, you must use a gun!

Bil Keane

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Bikram Choudhury

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

Bob Lutz

There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.

Bob Kerrey

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Bill Walton

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

Moshe Sharett

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.

We're going to run some split back veer and power stuff. It's kind of a retro look for us.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

Bobby McFerrin

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Benjamin Franklin

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Benjamin Franklin

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

Ben Cohen

Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Barbara Tuchman

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

Barbara Tuchman

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

Arthur Golden

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Arthur C. Clarke

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Anton Chekhov

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Bela Karolyi

Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

bell hooks

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.