Power Quotes

• The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Manipulation

• Since the wings are swifter to press the air than the air is to escape from beneath the wings the air becomes condensed and resists the movement of the wings; and the motive power of these wings by subduing the resistance of the air raises itself in a contrary movement to the movement of the wings.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Power
  • Air

• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Souls
  • Mastery
  • Demons

• I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Family

• We know that when change comes, no one is more adamant in holding on to the past than those in power. They know change is inevitable, but they would, if they could, parcel it out in measured pieces. Grain for chickens.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Power
  • Past

• God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

  

  Daniel A. Poling
  • Knowledge
  • Occasion
  • Listens

• I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• The poorest guy in Miami lives better than much of the power elite in Havana.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • Power
  • Guy

• Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Power

• I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Power
  • Appreciation

• An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Power
  • Simple

• For when every judgement is the act of hym that judgeth, it behoveth that every man performe hys worke and purpose, not by any forayne or straunge power or facultie, but by his owne proper power, and strength.

  

  Boethius
  • Power
  • Purpose

• Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Truth
  • Integrity
  • Gossip

• The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Time
  • Money
  • Black

• And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I hated being in a convent. It's another form of power. Manipulation. Because who can say - one God for the whole universe? I think there must be millions of gods! And they're not all of them very nice.

  

  Leonora Carrington
  • God
  • Nice
  • Universe

• I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • I Believe

• There are at the present time two great nations in the world-allude to the Russians and the Americans- All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding-along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Place
  • Dead

• The power suit is over.

  

  Christina Binkley
  • Power

• The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Power
  • True

• At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Power

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