Quotes about powerful
powerful lying two
It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it. Rick Perlstein
powerful talking needs
There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes. Rick Moody
powerful party president
Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party. Richard V. Allen
powerful people tears
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see. Richard MacDonald
powerful knowledge math
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. Rene Descartes
powerful justice pressure
For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must. Thucydides
powerful water thunder
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt. Thomas Huxley
powerful tools construction
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure. Thomas Eakins
powerful men agency
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. Thomas de Quincey
powerful military war
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. Timothy Garton Ash
powerful secret sun
The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets. Rumi
powerful want halos
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you. Tom Peters
powerful mistake love-is
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin. Tom Robbins
powerful real learning
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences. Tony Hoare
powerful people greed
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions. Steve Wozniak
powerful political lazy
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine subversion and snarky mimesis as originality. It would be more accurate to describe our golden age of political comedy as the peak output of a lucrative corporate plantation whose chief export is a cheap and powerful opiate for progressive angst and rage. Steve Almond
powerful cost speed
Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend. Stephen Covey
powerful team organization
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
powerful self influence
Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
powerful investment instruments
This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.
powerful communication heart
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.
powerful writing way
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
powerful struggle commitment
Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."
powerful world lenses
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
powerful patriotic rights
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them. Vaclav Havel
powerful faithful vision
Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. Suzanne Collins
powerful writing decision
There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out. Tate Taylor
powerful hero catalyst-for-change
After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
powerful thinking data
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. Steven Levitt
powerful writing thinking
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. Steven Moffat
powerful intelligent enemy
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours. Steven Pressfield
powerful writing stories
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be. Steven Brust
powerful eye sorcery
He got up and walked out, so I missed seeing the powerful sorcerer doing his powerful sorcery, which would have involved him closing his eyes and then, I don't know, maybe taking a deep breath or something.