Top 1200 Creative Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

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

Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.

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

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

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

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.

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

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

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

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

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.

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

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.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

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.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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

Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for 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.

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.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

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

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

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going overboard in producing an art piece and I like the way it brings the work away from a meditative space of reflection to a more direct, impactful tool that can compete with the mainstream. I like all these power plays, which have a lot to do with contextualization. In turn, I'm interested in creating crossovers between creative disciplines and in a way in subverting the expected role of the artist in society.

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