Quotes about power
power hands years
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. Simon Wiesenthal
powerful rocks water
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock. Rajneesh
powerful enemy safe
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. Sojourner Truth
powerful magic stills
There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. Sidney Lumet
powerful prayer perfect
Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace. Michelle Shocked
powerful giving long
[There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it. Michelle Rodriguez
powerful careers rise-to-power
This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it. Michael Shannon
powerful joints moral
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. Michael Shermer
powerful voice television
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. Michael Medved
powerful drawing brain
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine of processed food ingredients, with its high-speed, blunt assault on our brains, then fat is the opiate, a smooth operator whose effects are less obvious but no less powerful. Michael Moss
powerful boys ties
How was I to know your pet was a god-killer? What kind of idiot ties herself down to one of his kind? (Dionysus) Well, gee, what was I supposed to do? Hook up with Mr. All-powerful God-killer or get myself a Mardi Gras float and hang out with him? (She pointed to Camulus, who looked extremely offended by her comment.) You’re such a moron. No wonder you’re the patron god of drunken frat boys. (Artemis) Sherrilyn Kenyon
powerful exercise men
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. Theodore Roosevelt
powerful government oil
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
power humanity purpose
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
powerful compassion most-powerful
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
powerful technology compromise
It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises. Theodore Kaczynski
powerful thinking ideas
For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally. Theo James
powerful names able
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno
powerful knowing people
People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures. Terry Richardson
powerful strange-times littles
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are. Terry Pratchett
powerful dragons law
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.
powerful honesty weapons
There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty. Margaret Heffernan
power decision problem
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. Margaret J. Wheatley
powerful life-changing simple
Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.
powerful communication talking
[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about.
powerful culture clue
You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture. Marcus Buckingham
powerful giving-up smart
I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it. Michael Kors
powerful disappointment father
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. Michael Bergin
powerful different elements
Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful. Michael Bolton
powerful romantic-love romance
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. Melissa Pritchard
powerful long decision
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families. Melinda Gates
powerful development source
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
powerful believe belief
Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can… Melissa Marr