Top 1200 Buying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

It is necessary to bring our life in order, to examine each thing, and ask ourselves if it is bringing power into our life or if it is draining us. Ask yourself, is your life taking power from you or adding power to you?

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

I think a lot of people could do with buying a Flying Burrito Brothers record - it does wonders for you.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

I'm mostly into buying art from friends. I like to keep it vague - just whatever I find intriguing.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

I went through a phase of buying a lot of masks, as anyone who has been to a party at the house will testify.

I ended up buying a van to chuck all my fishing gear in because I couldn't keep using my car.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.

Basically the most fun part about the first day of anything is buying all the supplies.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.

My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.

I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.

I don't like ads: I'm too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don't even have a shed.

Honestly, it's alright that people are buying more guns. I just care that they are being safe individuals.

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

A friend is someone who supports you. And these people are buying tickets at outrageous ticket prices. If that ain't support, I don't know what is.

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

Strawweight, they have one power. In flyweight, they have totally different power. You can be the best one in the strawweight, but here, it's a totally different field. This is not someone who has less power than you. This is someone who has more power than you. This is where I feel this is my field; this is my territory.

It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.

Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

I've been on a dog-buying spree. I got two Yorkies and a small teacup Chihuahua.

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.