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Author:Ezra Pound

“The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.”

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Author:Ram Dass

“Word of mouth is very powerful.”

Powerful Power Mouths Very Powerful Word Of Mouth

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.”

Can Do Power Please Command

Author:Pierre Corneille

“It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.”

Ifs Different Power Paint Size Wide Scales Inches

Author:Robert Motherwell

“One never paints violently enough.”

Enough Power Painting Paint

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Don't give up your power.”

Giving Power Giving Up Don't Give Up

Author:Billy Crystal

“Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”

Power Weakness Always Wrong Insolent

Author:Noah Webster

“Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.”

Levels Results Powerful Power Our Lives Produce Uncomfortable Leap Quantum Really Powerful Quantum Leap

Author:Jack Canfield

“My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.”

World Want Whole Helping Life Is Power Missions Missions In Life

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.”

People Should Turns Politics Power Worst Being True Nightmare Concentration Far Away Vigilance Worst Nightmares

Author:Ken Livingstone

“We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

Known Power Century Solitude Forgotten Transcendent

Author:Susan Cain

“Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.”

Can Do Power Relax Fishing Thrill You Can Do It

Author:Bob Gibson

“I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.”

Trying Facts Next Power Issues Elements Sexuality Life And Death Motor

Author:Barbara Kruger

“The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.”

Powerful Power Effects Produce Impact Fingers Circles Touching Adam Angle Triangles

Book:Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario

Source: Kandinsky Watercolours: Exhibition May 23-June 28, 1970, Art Gallery of Ontario

“Harness the power of peers.”

Power Peers Harness

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.”

Ideas Power Insight Each Day

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.”

Power Subjects Mouths Prestige

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.”

Men Energy Hours Power Military Goes On Development Conflict Europe Oppression Deception Consideration Continents Defeated Expansion Arrested Thrift Crippled Militarism

Book:War and Other Essays

Source: War and Other Essays

“In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.”

Way War History Power Society Objects Balance Approach Direct Strategy Rounds Resistance Upset Defenders Indirect Compression Direct Approach

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Power is the recognition of necessity.”

Power Recognition

Author:Abraham Rotstein

“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.”

Ifs Should Vision Power Ought Will Power Have Courage

Author:Ben Okri

“My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.”

Jobs Power Acquire

Book:Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

States United Power United States Economy Expectations Power Corrupts

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.”

Power Economy Underwear Discarded

Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.”

Two Reality Together Powerful Power

Author:Pierre Reverdy

“I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.”

Made Self Sometimes Powerful Party Power Self Made

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.”

Persons Father Energy Power Passionate Willpower Boundless

Author:Raymond Blanc

“We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.”

Inspirational Use Power Capable Conscious Command Evolve Permit Cerebral

Author:Frederick Tilney

“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers”

People Giving Doe Strong Force Power Rights Security Politician Authority Police Human Rights Oppression Regulation Violation Repression Police Force Security Systems

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.”

“The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.”

Doe Art Power Effects Communication Art Is Relate

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.”

Knows Use Power Know How

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.”

Moments Seems Power Progress Conditions Response Tyranny Adversaries Usage Optimum

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.”

Feelings Common Power Accomplishment Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Robert Genn

“An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.”

Power Incomplete

Author:Richard Schmid

“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”

States United Power United States Century Exercise Arrogance Agony

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.”

America Strong Power Strength Integrity Importance Financial Deeper Significant Bombs Vitality Being Strong

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.”

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.”

Men Reason Turns Power Advice Ears Controlled Deaf Good Advice Peer Pressure Deaf Ears

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.”

Politics Power Commitment Sufficient Unnecessary Firmness Rashness

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.”

Men Power Injustice Financial Protection

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do.”

Men Humans Done Can Do Power

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.”

Ifs War Would Be Politics Power Jokes Justified

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.”

Ifs War Evil Politics Power Crime

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.”

Politics Power Policy Shapes International Foreign Policy Incidents

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.”

People Mean Politics Power Terror Gentle Decent Protected

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.”

Government Politics Nations Term Power Policy Duty Eras Foreign Policy Spy Ambassadors

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.”

Men Made Politics Power Personality Authority Weight Accounts Public Life

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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