“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.” IfsMindHappensYoungSpiritPowerfulCreativeProgressIntellectualContactWorldlyEndeavour Author:Will Self
“People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.” PeopleWantFeelingsHappensPowerfulKnowingExcitement Author:Terry Richardson
“What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsHumansIdeasHandsBigsHappensForcePowerfulEnvironmentRightsAgreeEntrepreneurHuman RightsSpreadEntrepreneurshipHotelMost PowerfulSteelBig Ideas Author:Bill Drayton
“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.” TryingMindImportantRealBodyHappensPowerfulActingImpossibleBloodMessagesVariousYour BodyFakeShockBeing RealImportant QuestionsGlands Author:Ben Kingsley
“People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.” PeopleThinkingBodyHappensRunningPowerfulBrainMovementConnectedSpeedGuidesThings HappenNervousMusclesMmaJumpingAthleticNervous SystemMake Things HappenHigh SpeedAthleticism Author:Georges St-Pierre
“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanHas BeensIdeasHappensNaturalPowerfulTroubleGroupsWingsSurprisingRight WingSubordinatesSubordination Author:Gloria Steinem
“Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.” PeopleIfsCountryHappensPowerfulKnownHunger Author:Wendell Berry