Famous Quotes & Sayings

John W. Thompson

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

John W. Gardner

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

John Ruskin

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

John Ruskin

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Stott

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

John Stott

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

John Steinbeck

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Sherry Turkle

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Sherry Argov

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn’t damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra) And that is? (Cassandra) I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra) Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren’t thinking the same thing. (Chris)

Nina Jacobson

The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.

Nigel Short

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Nicolas Cage

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nora Ephron

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Nile Rodgers

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

Nikos Kazantzakis

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

Nikola Tesla

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Nikola Tesla

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

Nicole Krauss

David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

N. T. Wright

The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven.

Monica Lewinsky

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

Monica Lewinsky

Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,

Miles Teller

Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

Mike Murdock

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

Mignon McLaughlin

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

John Wooden

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your personal example.

John Wooden

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

John Wooden

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

John Wooden

There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

John Wooden

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.