Power Quotes
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.
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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.
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Achievement doesn't come from what we do, but from who we are. Our worldly power results from our personal power. Our career is an extension of our personality.
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In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.
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American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.
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The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
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Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
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Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy, to him be power and authority for ever and ever.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
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You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.
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I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
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I have no interest in the trappings of power.
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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
