Top 1200 More Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't see how there is anyone, after God, who has more power than me in the country.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

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.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.

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 don't think 'Citizen Kane' stands more than one watch. Power corrupts. Who didn't know that?

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

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.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Whatever is in your magnetic field is attracting to itself, and so the more love in your field, the more power you have to attract the things you love.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Spirit is the most valuable asset, more than money and any other power.

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me, then I'd be acknowledging to myself that he had the power to destroy me more thoroughly than anyone, even Apollyon or the vampire council, could. All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.

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.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Think Give. Not Get. Nothing has the power to positively change your world more.

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

The more experience I get, the more I know to relax and let go of things because there's so much that is out of your control. So much needs to happen to get a film made nowadays and star power doesn't even matter anymore. So, me being what I am, I have to realise that to an extent.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

One thing that you find out later in life is that you have a lot more power than you think you do.

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.

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."

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

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.

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 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!

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.

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.

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

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.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

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?

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.

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.