“You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.” PeopleFeelsImportantYoungPassionOpportunityVoiceImaginationPowerfulPlanetsEmployeeMost PowerfulEducateStirringLone Author:Anita Roddick
“It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.” ImportantPresidentAbilityPowerfulBehindsWatchesClearFocusSpeechWeightClimateClimate ChangeCommandRemarkableRhetoricBullyPulpit Author:Josh Fox
“In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.” IfsMenHas BeensImportantPowerfulSituationBe A Man Author:Gloria Steinem
“There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was so important and powerful. That is something our scene has - regardless of who is in it, it has this very powerful feminine energy, like a Nefertiti head bust or Storm from X-Men. It's a woman you see as very powerful, sassy, arrogant, and dark.” MenImportantEnergyDarkPowerfulSceneStormFeminineArrogantMasculinityVery PowerfulRiotSassyX MenFeminine EnergyNefertiti Author:Le1f
“Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.” IfsLooksLittlesImportantEnoughHeavenStarsRealizingPowerfulWonderStepsTinySupposed To BeLook UpAbout YourselfInsignificantExplosionsDots Author:Alan Alda
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could happen in a situation - for the good things we would like to see happen.” IfsThinkingNeedsMayImportantHappensPowerfulSituationNegativeGood ThingsVery StrongPositive ThoughtsOur ThoughtsNegative Thoughts Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?” PeopleIfsTryingImportantPowerful Author:John Edgar Wideman
“As an actor, I was taught, from an early age, that secrets are the most powerful thing that you can have on screen, and that what you withhold is as important as what you share.” ImportantAgeActorsPowerfulSecretShareTaughtScreensMost Powerful Author:Rose McIver
“The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion.” FeelsHeartImportantRealityMovingUniverseEnergyForcePowerfulCommonConsciousnessHigherGratitudeConflictBenefitsIllusionFilledShiningAppearanceWitnessMost PowerfulAfflictionBeing ThankfulFrequencyScarcityShining ThroughHeart Filled Author:John Randolph Price
“When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.” PeopleWayImportantSelfPowerfulIllusionInstitutionsBiting Author:William Greider
“A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful.” YearsImportantIdeasPowerfulFictionCenturyCoupleHundredScience FictionForgottenPhilosopherShallowTwentieth CenturyVery PowerfulFiction WritersIsaac Author:Marvin Minsky
“Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.” MindImportantCoursesPowerfulHealingStomachPillsMedicationDissolving Book:The Tough-Minded Optimist Source: The Tough-Minded Optimist