Power Quotes

The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.

Adrian Slywotzky
- Power
- Happen
- Managers
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

Christian D. Larson

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

Georges Didi-Huberman
- Power
- Photography
- Memory
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.

Kim Jee-woon
- People
- Up
- Different
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

Olive Schreiner
- People
- World
- Power
I can't quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it's actually a beautiful practice. It's giving of yourself to a higher power - no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.

Gabourey Sidibe
- Life
- Up
- Remember
More and more teams are, in the vernacular, 'going small,' with only one big man down deep. Good grief, the position of power forward is in the process of going the way of short shorts.

Frank Deford
- Good
- Small
- Deep
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

Rufus Choate