Top 1200 Power Moves Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I guess you can say I 'do the Twist.' I like playful dance moves that aren't too serious.

God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

I'm very much about stories that are fast but character development that moves slow.

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.