Power Quotes - Page 35

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.

Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?