Top 1200 Power Play Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

The economy has made me think I have no power. That is not true. I control the power to change my future.

The power of HEART is much stronger than the power of MIND to empower our life.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.

I've fought a lot of guys with power. It takes more than power to win a fight.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

When I got on tour in 2014, I was hitting a slice off the tee. No joke. Yeah, I had plenty of power, and I knew how to play the curve, but I was a tour player who was watching his tee shots peel 30, 40 yards to the right.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

I found Ricky Ponting the hardest to bowl to and it was a great pleasure to play against him as he was genuinely one of the best that's ever played and a really tough competitor as well. He hated you when you were on the field but he always shook your hand and was the epitome of 'play hard but play fair.'

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.