Top 1200 Buying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.

Once upon a time the 'GG' was a status symbol. It was the reason people were buying.

All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run.

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

When Berkshire buys common stock, we approach the transaction as if we were buying into a private business.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting that power, waking it up. And dedicating your life to honoring it.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

Look, dry-aged meat is amazing and certainly worth buying when you can afford it.

It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.

I love buying gifts for people who I am close to as I know their likes and dislikes.

Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.

I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

Apparently, it makes me hard to shop for because I'm constantly buying myself presents.

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.

By buying big - going narrow and deep, as opposed to a diversifying - you maximize your successes.

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.

I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.

I get bored of carrying the same bag often. So, I end up buying more.

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Perhaps I should just motivate myself by buying trophy cabinets - so I have to fill them.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.

Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

I can't quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it's actually a beautiful practice. It's giving of yourself to a higher power - no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

When buying vintage, it's important to choose pieces that you feel like you've already owned for years.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.