Top 100 Potency Quotes & Sayings

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.

Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving.

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

A few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

Mercedes and Ferrari fear Red Bull more than any other team because they know the potency and capability that we have.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

It was very clear, if you grew up in the middle of Ireland, just how potent a force the Internet was and could be. I was always seduced by the potency of computers and the possibilities for which they could be leveraged.

The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Listen closely to your invisible thoughts. What do you hear? What are your words implying? That is their potency. What do you want? Name it and rearrange the structure of your mind to imply you no longer desire it, because you already have it!

Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

When you're on stage and the stars are aligned and the audience is as one and you're guiding them, steering them... It's a feeling of incredible potency, of unity, of such, such joy. It's almost overwhelming to know that you're making that number of people feel better.

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.