Top 1200 Too Much Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I was gushing and I knew it. I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself saying too much, explaining too much, overinvolved and overexcited in the way you are when you're a kid and you think you've found a soul mate in the new boy down the street and you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship and so act as you don't normally do and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.

Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."

This is the state of all creatures, whether men or angels; as they make not themselves, so they enjoy nothing from themselves; if they are great, it must be only as great receivers of the gifts of God; their power can only be so much of the divine power acting in them; their wisdom can be only so much of the divine wisdom shining within them; and their light and glory, only so much of the light and glory of God shining upon them.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person, he doesn't relate to the person. All these things I've written so much about. That's why I've made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much