Powerful Quotes

• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Society
  • Political
  • Action

• I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

  

  Catherine Malandrino
  • Take
  • Dreaming
  • No One

• I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Government
  • Son

• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Action
  • Interest
  • Defence

• Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Respect
  • Influence
  • Selfless

• Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Desire
  • Safety

• For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Message
  • Mainstream
  • Extremely

• Because of the Law of Attraction, each of you is like a powerful magnet, attracting unto you more of the way that you feel at any point in time.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Feels
  • Attraction
  • Magnet

• I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Theater
  • Intimacy
  • Engagement

• I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Comedy
  • Language
  • Dialogue

• The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Powerful
  • Understanding
  • Empathy

• All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

  

  Charles Brockden Brown
  • Reason
  • Effort
  • Belief

• A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength. This knowledge can be gained only by making a practical application of this information. We learn by doing-through practice the athlete becomes powerful.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Ability
  • Athlete
  • Harmony

• Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for it. But it is the case that the journalists are what they are - world famous for vulgarity, alcoholism, spite.

  

  Charles McGrath
  • World
  • Powerful

• Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

  

  Amy Hardie
  • Powerful
  • Stories
  • Create

• If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Important
  • Fantasy
  • Manifestation

• Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Rule

• If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.

  

  Charles H. MacDonald
  • Action
  • Fighter
  • Valuable

• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Experience
  • Word
  • Customers

• The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

  

  Alexander Gordon Smith
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Fragile

• Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, 'Ask, and it is given,' there is no more powerful statement that is at the basis of what makes things happen than that. Now, how is it that you think you ask? With your words? The Universe doesn't hear your words. You ask with your desire. The desire that is born out of the contrast. That desire. That wanting. That's what summons the Life Force.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Attraction

• I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Powerful
  • Intelligent
  • Villain

• Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

  

  David Farland
  • Real
  • Vision
  • Unique

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