Top 1200 Power Of Myth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

The only thing that's really important is the stuff he wrote. That's what he cared about, and that's what's worth protecting. The myth and the man time eventually separates. But the work endures.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward.

In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.