Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• I could never take orders from anyone.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Never
  • Take
  • Could

• I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Place
  • Where
  • Favourite

• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Together
  • Change
  • Action

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Action
  • Far

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

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

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Man
  • Smart

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Take
  • Vacation

• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Kindness
  • Our

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Bible
  • Place

• What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • Power
  • Problem

• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Twilight

• I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Power
  • Success
  • Eyes

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Power
  • Serious

• Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Moments

• Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Sincerity

• I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Romantic
  • Silly

• Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Job
  • Boss

• When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • America

• Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Power
  • Action
  • Place