Quotes about power
powerful people chance
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. Stanislav Grof
powerful moving media
As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds. Spike Lee
powerful thinking people
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence. Spike Lee
powerful reality numbers
If I had to say who is the number-one most powerful figure is in reality TV, it's very easy. It is the general public. They're the only people who have power now. Simon Cowell
powerful school character
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing. Sigourney Weaver
powerful men desire
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment. Sigmund Freud
powerful feelings mind
There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions. Sigmund Freud
powerful independent men
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. Sigmund Freud
powerful jewels land
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us. Shirley Jackson
powerful voice feel-good
The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down. Shirley Manson
powerful hands people
I've helped people get rid of headaches by placing my hand on their forehead, and backaches by placing my hand on their back. It's a powerful example of love that really works. Shelley Long
powerful thinking past
What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now. Shepard Fairey
powerful belief human-nature
One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible. Shawn Achor
powerful effort belief
Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions. Shawn Achor
powerful teaching grateful
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism. Shawn Achor
powerful athlete long
I was always known as that stocky, muscular, powerful, short, athlete. People always wondered if I was on steroids, and it was because I wasn't that long and lean, flexible, artistic gymnast. It didn't affect me too much but it got to the point where I tried to be that long and lean gymnast, and it just wasn't possible. Shawn Johnson
powerful real grateful
My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now. Shailene Woodley
powerful humans human-beings
As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time. Shakti Gawain
powerful mirrors world
Our relationship to money reflects how we feel about our power to affect the world. Since money is a mirror of our consciousness, the more comfortable we are with being powerful, the more money we are likely to create in our lives. Shakti Gawain
powerful business thinking
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. Sergey Brin
powerful thinking artist
I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music. Serj Tankian
powerful ideas
The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living. Serj Tankian
powerful thinking data
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. Steven Levitt
powerful writing thinking
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. Steven Moffat
power ideas each-day
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. Steven Pressfield
powerful intelligent enemy
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours. Steven Pressfield
powerful writing stories
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be. Steven Brust
powerful eye sorcery
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something. Steven Brust
powerful world grows
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world. Susan L. Taylor
powerful mind opinion
there's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind! Susan Jeffers
powerful attitude block
While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly. Susan Jeffers
powerful self feelings
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. Susan Jeffers
powerful commitment miracle
Commitment creates a powerful radiant energy that activates all sorts of "miracles" within and around you. Susan Jeffers