Quotes about power
powerful pride men
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of ripping myself open to my partner and saying 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable. Dwayne Johnson
powerful believe born
Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.
powerful war men
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower
powerful men order
One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.
powerful gun ideas
Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.
powerful humble men
[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however humble the one and however powerful the other. A man with five dollars in the bank can call to account the corporation with five billion dollars in assets-and the two will be heard as equals before the law.
powerful criticism defense
The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it. Clare Boothe Luce
powerful ignorance happy-life
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces. Dalai Lama
powerful compassion keys
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us - and the key here is constant familiarity. The nature of human thoughts and emotions is such that the more you engage in them, the more you consciously develop them, the more powerful they become.
powerful hands long
Although violence and the use of force may appear powerful and decisive, their benefits are short-lived. Violence can never bring a lasting and long term resolution to any problem, because it is unpredictable and for every problem it seems to solve, others are created. On the other hand, truth remains constant and will ultimately prevail.
powerless prefer sort walk
I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens. Addison Timlin
power sit supreme
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
power profoundly
In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified. Carlo Rubbia
powerful win
If (Picazo) wrestles like he is capable, he can win a lot of matches. He is a big and powerful guy.
power win
If we've got race-winning power, we're going to go win the race. If we don't, we're going to just not wreck. Carl Edwards
powers
If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left?
power
In the WCHA, if your power play's not going to score, you're not going to win.
powerful relax three
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST. Ingmar Bergman
powerful balance way
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification. Jack Kornfield
powerful skills people
Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit. Jack Canfield
powerful perfect silence
There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't crystal clear and perfect,so there is a kind of gauzy layer between you and what you see. You could argue it's the silence of them. You could say it's the sound of the projector that creates a moodiness. But there's something about looking at analog movies that's infinitely more powerful than digital. J. J. Abrams
powerful lying writing
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead. J. G. Ballard
powerful imagination saws
The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.
powerful laughter light
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. Isobelle Carmody
powerful class people
And in some ways, to me, that's one of the inspiring and powerful things about the Great Migration itself. There was no leader, there was no one person who set the date who said, 'On this date, people will leave the South.' They left on their own accord for as many reasons as there are people who left. They made a choice that they were not going to live under the system into which they were born anymore and in some ways, it was the first step that the nation's servant class ever took without asking. Isabel Wilkerson
powerful love-is hatred
I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful. Immaculee Ilibagiza
powerful mean two
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. Jack Lynch
powerful science skills
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Isaac Newton
powerful mean reality
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right. Irving Howe
powerful numbers people
Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent. Guy Verhofstadt
powerful challenges looks
The most powerful sign is that your work no longer enchants you - it's not deep, delightful, and mutually satisfying. When this happens, it may be time to look for new challenges. Guy Kawasaki
powerful soul enemy
Beware of more powerful weapons. They often inflict as much damage to your soul as they do to you enemies. Greg Cox
powerful moving fossils
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. Greg Graffin