John Locke Quotes

Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Power
  • Political

• I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Power
  • Space
  • Walk

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Power
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Long
  • Book
  • Power

• Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Power
  • Presidential
  • Election

• The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest, especially as by means of them I have found myself enabled to distinguish one species from another, to the farthest extent of my power of vision.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Great
  • Power
  • Vision

• You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Power

• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Money
  • Power
  • I Think

• If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Ideas
  • Worry
  • Caves

• Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Love
  • Baby
  • Confusion

• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Distinction