Power Quotes
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Antony Beevor
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Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
Leon Charney
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Every technology contrived and 'outered' by man has the power to numb human awareness during the period of its first interiorization. (p. 174)
Marshall McLuhan
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Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
Judy Chicago
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Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
John Wooden
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As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
Jason Calacanis
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
Lynn Nottage
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Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
Mark Z. Jacobson
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
Michael Mandelbaum
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Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
Lynn Good
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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In some ways, it's easier to recognize your power when you're calm and untroubled than when you're distressed. Search out your talent in quiet moments. Don't push too hard. You've done it once. You can do it again.
Brandon Mull
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I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.
Kevin Bacon
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Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
William Shirley
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
John Barrasso
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The word 'Blue' does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.
John Ruskin
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The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
John Doolittle
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
George Davis Herron
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The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.
Ban Ki-moon
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There is potential for more Chinese investment in India's infrastructure, and there are already Chinese investors in India's power and telecoms sector as well as the banking and payments space.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
Gavin Turk
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I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.
Karyn Kusama
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I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
Angela Davis