Quotes about power
powerful exercise technology
Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.
powerful mean people
I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about. Linda Blair
power
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy
powerful men expression
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!
power expression execution
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
powerful judging looks
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful allyit is. Leigh Brackett
powerful men drug
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. Leo Rosten
powerful play missing
The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. Leo Buscaglia
powerful puppets literature
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
powerful views hands
What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view that the invisible hand is more powerful than the [un]hidden hand. Things will happen in well-organized efforts without direction, controls, plans. That's the consensus among economists. That's the Hayek legacy. Lawrence Summers
powerful needs goes-on
Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort. Lawrence M. Krauss
powerful past rights
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past. Lawrence Lessig
powerful crazy believe
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.
powerful artist knowing
Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam. Lady Gaga
powerful real feelings
Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth. Joyce Meyer
powerful school gun
You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. Josephine Baker
power within-you knows
Seek to know the power that is within you. Joseph Campbell
powerful people needs
We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from. Karl Rove
powerful people damage
The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us. Karl Popper
powerful dark embrace
The warmth of his embrace soaked into me, a powerful charm against the dark things. Juliet Marillier
powerful weapons most-powerful
The most powerful weapon is hope.
power want sin
Repentance is but want of power to sin. John Dryden
powerful communication mean
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well John Marshall
powerful color law
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
powerful freedom ideas
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. John Maynard Keynes
powerful jealous office
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
powerful age century
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. John Lukacs
power creation mark
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. John Locke
powerful vote most-powerful
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it. John Lewis
powerful cat animal
I grew up with a lot of cats like that and they always were so surprising, magnetic, and electrifying. You can't be with them too long because they burn you out but the energy, the impulsivity, and the freedom connecting them to their animal energy is just so powerful to watch. It's dangerous to live like that but it's riveting to watch. John Leguizamo
powerful thinking arrogance
It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. John Landgraf
power-corrupts
All power corrupts but some must govern. John le Carre
power secrecy distribution
Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.