Quotes about power
power tyrants greed
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. Virgil
powerful eye men
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes. Vincent Piazza
power games generations
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does. Will Wright
powerful incentives hunger
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. Willa Cather
powerful past long
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
powerful years problem
There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago. Will Smith
powerful essentials brands
Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success. Warren Buffett
powerful numbers oligarchy
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. Vladimir Lenin
powerful tools looks
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life. Wayne Dyer
power facts life-is
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. Walter Benjamin
powerful world most-powerful
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever Virginia Woolf
power dominion loathe
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
powerful women history
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
powerful marketing elements
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. William Bernbach
powerful believe book
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.
powerful knowledge men
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
powerful cinema film
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema. Werner Herzog
powerful believe animal
The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing its tenets, we help animals, but we also advance commerce in a more sustainable, and profitable, way. I think we have every reason to believe it is the way of the future. Wayne Pacelle
powerful writing play
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play. Wallace Shawn
powerful passion sloth
Sloth is all passions the most powerful. Samuel Beckett
power law acting
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
powerful cry poor
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. Salman Rushdie
powerful wall fall
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
powerful destiny bears
If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken. Rudolf Steiner
powerful guy may
I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys. Wesley Snipes
powerful childhood mind
I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood.
powerful homegrown locals
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. Tony Wilson
power gears combat
Power dressing is combat gear for the trip to the top. Valerie Steele
powerful self looks
The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.
powerful color white
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable. Van Jones
powerful practice careers
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. Ursula Burns
powerful children wish
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off. Ursula K. Le Guin
power achievement growth
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.