Powerful Quotes

• Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hero

• Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Action
  • Effort
  • Belief

• Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Support
  • Magic
  • Performers

• I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Writing
  • Beach

• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Reality

• I think that it's so powerful for me to go see someone like Bridget Everett at Joe's Pub and watch her weave her songs in and out of these funny, tragic stories - you can talk and sing and it's not this horrible offense, you're going to get thrown in artistic jail.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artistic

• I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Influential

• I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

  

  John Edwards
  • Powerful

• Social media is a powerful tool to connect constituents with the policy making process.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Powerful

• The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Elements

• There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

  

  Will Self
  • Mind
  • Creative
  • Intellectual

• Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Experience
  • Moments
  • Powerful

• VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.

  

  Michael Pryor
  • Imagination
  • Around
  • Cultivate

• Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form

  

  Miles Teller
  • Powerful
  • Literature
  • Figures

• The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Passion
  • Powerful

• Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

  

  Melissa Pritchard
  • Powerful
  • Romantic
  • Novel

• There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • College
  • Powerful

• Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • May
  • Brain
  • Challenge

• The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Values
  • Rational
  • Indifferent

• A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

  

  Barbara Jane Reyes
  • Powerful
  • Prayer
  • Daughter

• Phones are powerful at providing information.

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Powerful
  • Information
  • Phones

• If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Country
  • Powerful

• Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.

  

  George M. Church
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Humanity

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