Top 1200 Controlling Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

There's so many things you can't account for that can happen during each race. I just focus on controlling what I can.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition. You shouldn't just compile power and hold onto power for power's sake.

When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.

I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.

...a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist!

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

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.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.

We must each walk through life on our own, but we don't have to do it alone. God wants a powerful people. He gives His power to those who are faithful. We have a sacred obligation to seek after the power of God and then to use that power as He directs. And when we have the power of God with us, nothing is impossible.

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. When we say of somebody that he is 'in power' we actually refer to his being empowered by a certain number of people to act in their name. The moment the group, from which the power originated to begin with ... disappears, 'his power' also vanishes.

The government is controlling your mind through chem trails, we all know this is true.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.

Besides controlling my diet, I did functional training, weights, pilates and cardio everyday.

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

I forgive everyone who caused my suffering, even the pilot, commander, people controlling me.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.