Top 1200 Power Of Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.

To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into the money he never paid in taxes because he is 'smart.' No: Power and ambition pale in comparison to Trumpbeth's rapacious grab for applause.

There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Through a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

God would have us move to the highest level of our nature, and that means that we need to understand that our capacity to deal with the spirit-the darkness of the spirit with the light of the spirit as our greatest power.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

But have we Holy Ghost power — power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior.

We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?