Power Quotes
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Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.
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By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
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The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
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The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
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I believe in the power of one.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
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24/7 power is going to happen; it is not a question of possible or impossible.
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The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.
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In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.
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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
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A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
