Alexandra Pelosi Quotes

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

Alexandra Pelosi

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• You cannot do only one thing.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • You
  • Only
  • One Thing

• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Trying
  • You
  • Race

• I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Advice
  • End
  • Medical

• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Working
  • Honest
  • Computers

• The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Women
  • Career

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Years
  • Journey
  • Town

• Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Experience
  • American
  • War

• It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

  

  Amy Cuddy
  • People
  • Power

• Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords. (p. 302).

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Power
  • Magic

• There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • People
  • Reality
  • Being

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

  

  Alexandra Pelosi
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Perception