Power Quotes

• Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

  

  David McCandless
  • Long
  • Power
  • Design

• The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Soul
  • Practice
  • Fly

• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Lucky

• Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Faith Words aren't just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.

  

  Bo Sanchez
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Free
  • Space
  • Spiritual

• Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Compassion
  • Praying
  • Resurrection

• For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women
  • Power
  • Stop

• Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Power
  • Cultures
  • Mastery

• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Power
  • Successful
  • Ignore

• There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Power
  • Things
  • I Think

• Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

  

  John F. Lehman, Jr.
  • Power

• I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Prestige
  • Political endeavors
  • Economic endeavors

• The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • God
  • American

• Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Power

• When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Different
  • College
  • Football

• The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

  

  Derek Fisher
  • God
  • Doubt
  • Shadow

• I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Power

• Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

  

  Aubrey de Vere
  • Art
  • Sweet
  • Sin

• Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

  

  Sadako Ogata
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Military

• God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Evil

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