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

• In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Life
  • World
  • America

• Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Society
  • Chaos
  • Selfish

• The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Leaders
  • Anticipation
  • Losers

• Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.

  

  George Packer
  • Work
  • Power
  • Sexy

• If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • Real
  • Power
  • Alone

• There is great power in deference. Deference works with everybody.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Great
  • Power

• 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

• The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • American
  • Rest

• ... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

  

  Archibald Cox
  • True
  • Disobedience
  • Compels

• For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Future
  • Math
  • Seductive

• Politics does not bother corporate power. Whoever wins, they win. Both parties represent Wall Street over Main Street. Wall Street is embedded in the federal government.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Wall

• Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.

  

  Deborah King
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Feminine

• Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Power
  • Fear

• Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Power
  • High
  • Energy

• When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Value

• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  

  Kenneth Kaunda
  • Great
  • Power

• Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Power
  • Moral
  • Literature

• It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Presses
  • Productions
  • Purchasing

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

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Power
  • Things
  • I Think

• If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Devil

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