“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.” VoiceNaturalPowerfulActingEventsRoundsAppearanceEveningTriumphCharmTouchingPeculiarCharmingFlexibleExquisiteJennyGreat Events Author:Queen Victoria
“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.” MayHelpingOrderCoursesGivenPowerfulEventsCryMastersBattleCommitmentPrisonBoundsShipsFinding YourselfInstructionSailingVowSignaturesMonasteriesSailing ShipsModifying Author:Bronislaw Malinowski
“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.” IfsThinkingMenMayMeanArtCertainCoursesFoundBitsPowerfulEventsBlessingDifficultyAverageMoodFirmStreamsCarrieSerenityUnfortunateHarborsGloomyMood Changes Book:Van Gogh's Source: Van Gogh's
“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.” IfsTryingPowerfulMillionsFailingEventsCharityProfitExperimentsUpsetEndeavorCurvesRevenueAttorneyParamountFundraisingLearning CurveFundraising For Charity Author:Dan Pallotta
“Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.” PeopleCoursesLostPowerfulConditionsEventsRedOvercomingHotIndividualityBlowBoundariesResistanceIronSpheresMetalsSheetsHammersIdenticalSteamIrritationReflexesCubesInexorableRed Hot Book:History of the Russian Revolution Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.” PeopleLoveImportantFeelingsHomePowerfulSupportForeverEventsReturnDecidedUpliftingMost PowerfulEpochForever LoveBrotherlyMotherlandCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.” IfsWantMovingChoicesFallPowerfulEventsShapesSucceedDebateDividesOur FutureFall BackStale Author:Barack Obama
“In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.” IdeasTimePowerfulIssuesEventsShapesExpectationsUltimateDetermineGreat Times Author:Francis Bacon
“If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.” IfsDifferentFactsNextPleasurePowerfulEventsProduceDevelopmentTrumpAmountElementsAspectSizeNarrativeJudgedDispleasureSequencing Author:Antonio Damasio
“I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh - the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The United Nations had an event where her son got an award and they put me on this special program on competitiveness and sustainability, and we're talking about doing a world tour of me and the music.” WorldNationsUnitedPowerfulTalkingSpecialEventsSonProgramMagazinesMinistersMost PowerfulPrimeAwardsSustainabilityPrime MinisterUnited NationsPowerful WomenCompetitivenessBangladeshForbes Author:Robert Davi
“In fact, if you were interested in a global platform there are only three sporting events: probably the most powerful - or equally powerful [to F1] - are the World Cup and the Olympics, and then Formula One. And there it gets interesting.” IfsWorldFactsThreeInterestingPowerfulEventsCupsMost PowerfulFormulasPlatformsOlympicsWorld CupFormula OneSporting Events Author:Martin Sorrell
“Bernie [Ecclestone] has not been shy to say one or two controversial things. The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately. But not Bernie! What it tells you is that the demand for live sporting rights, the demand for global or regional events, is so powerful that you brush aside some things because there aren't so many of these events.” PersonsTwoLastsPowerfulGoneRightsEventsProductsDemandShyCrapBrushesControversial Author:Martin Sorrell
“Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important - live sporting events are extremely powerful. But it's not the event alone - it's also what's surrounding it.” ImportantPowerfulEventsTvsTheoryDespiteImplicationsLinearTabletsStreamingSmartphonesSporting Events Author:Martin Sorrell
“With the passion and the vision of the Berners [Sanders] coming into the Greens - we call it berning green - and the events that I'm going to that are being created around the country right now, it's the Bernie folks who are showing up in huge numbers along with the traditional Green. It's very powerful.” CountryPassionPowerfulNumbersVisionEventsHugeRight NowGreenFolksTraditionalVery PowerfulShowing UpHuge Numbers Author:Jill Stein