Quotes about powerful
powerful successful college
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Jennifer Granholm
powerful discipline doctrine
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism. Jeff Cohen
powerful ignorance reality
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality. Jeff Buckley
powerful mouths word-of-mouth
Word of mouth is very powerful. Jeff Bezos
powerful men violence
It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well. Jeff Bridges
powerful inspire powerful-god
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others? Jean-Paul Sartre
powerful war rich
When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
powerful commitment silence
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.
powerful philosophical thinking
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
powerful heart christ
O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you. George Whitefield
powerful men humanity
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction. George Will
powerful writing men
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. George Sand
powerful desire stranger
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. George Saunders
powerful thinking ideas
That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now. Jeff Merkley
powerful showing-up essentials
Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful. Jeff Olson
powerful hatred good-intentions
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. Jim Goad
powerful listening earth
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music. Jerry Reed
powerful light years
A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime. Neil deGrasse Tyson
powerful thinking earthquakes
If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.
powerful evil waiting
Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped. Neil Gaiman
powerful player world
The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player. John Naisbitt
powerful hatred minorities
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims? John O. Brennan
powerful hate rain
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even. John Waters
powerful thinking experience
I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft. John W. Thompson
powerful failure personality
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. John W. Gardner
powerful compassion vision
Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership. John Stott
powerful philosophy imagination
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
powerful believe writing
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. John Steinbeck
powerful opera appeals
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. John Philip Sousa
powerful people black
In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism. John Pilger
powerful sea internet
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
powerful blessed names
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord." John Piper
powerful inspiration passion
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.