Top 1200 Real Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

I think soft power definitely can work. But, you know, it depends on who you're dealing with. Some people are so intent upon power and keeping power that it's very difficult to conduct soft power.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

I felt like the last record was a real step forward for us. I was very pleased to see some people saying the same things - that it was a real departure, that it was much more individual, that it sort of a power of its own. I really did feel those things very strongly, it's our most realized record.

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

Thus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited moral capacity. I testify and witness that the enabling power of the Savior's Atonement is real. Without that strengthening power of the Atonement, I could not stand before you this morning.

I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.

The power of being in the physical presence of another person delivers real benefits.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

The Obama administration already claims the power to wage endless and boundless war, in virtually total secrecy, and without a single meaningful check or constraint. No institution with any power disputes this. To the contrary, the only ones which exert real influence - Congress, the courts, the establishment media, the plutocratic class - clearly favor its continuation and only think about how further to enable it.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil ? not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

With us, the people of India, rests the real power to decide our collective future.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.

We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.

Having a long career with real lasting power has always been a goal.

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

First rule of magic: Don't let anyone know your real name. Names have power.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

Watch a child play, and you will see real power. They are fearless.

Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.