Quotes about power
powerful filled-up long
A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power. Umberto Eco
powerful ideas tiny
The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable. Richard Dawkins
powerful believe people
Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven.
powerful keys quality
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality. Roelof Botha
powerful war greatness
And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some. Robin Wasserman
powerful thinking earth
Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action. Robert Ringer
powerful media chill
There`s sort of a chilling effect on non-profits and the media and a lot of other places because the establishment is so powerful. That`s where the money is. Robert Reich
powerful class government
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
power size different
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size. Robert Motherwell
powerful building-up ideas
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict. Robert Wyatt
powerful play enemy
The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy. Robert Scheer
powerful book years
It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral. Robert Lowell
powerful drama vision
Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning Robert Ludlum
powerful simple important
Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. Sargent Shriver
powerful creative meditation
When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative. Sarah MacLean
powerful real moving
Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more. Sarah Kay
powerful desire world
I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. Santiago Durango
powerful past thinking
In just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior. Sandy Carter
powerful school quality
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards. Sandy Berger
powerful sibling family-love
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power. Sander Levin
power environmental important
It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
power evil littles
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. Samuel Johnson
power want resistance
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
powerful flower writing
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded.
powerful thinking ideas
I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me. Sarah Polley
power possessed transformed
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed. Wallace Stevens
power remember memento
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento Virgil
power tyrants greed
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
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