Power Quotes

• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Power
  • True
  • Striking

• I don't think the people in power realize how detrimental it can be to a way a girl looks at herself if she flips through a magazine and only sees one type of woman.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Time
  • Power
  • Decision

• Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Vicious

• It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use them. They can't answer you or have a rebuttal.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Power
  • Abuse

• 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

• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  

  Maximilian Schell
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Moral

• Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

  

  John S. Watson
  • Work
  • Power

• Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Simple

• I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.

  

  John Lewis Gaddis
  • Power
  • Hand

• I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Technology

• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • America

• You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Education
  • Knowledge

• I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Good Example

• Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • Painting
  • Able

• The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Unique

• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Mind
  • Magic

• There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Words
  • Support
  • Church

• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Power

• 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.

  

  John Cheever
  • Power
  • Literature

• The answer as to why ISIS gained power and influence, and why stability in the Middle East has disastrously deteriorated, does not require extensive analysis.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Why
  • Power

• I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Devil
  • Drunk

• Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Power
  • Period
  • Profound

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