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“Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.”

Source: What's A Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery

“Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.”

Thinking Needs Order Women Powerful Overpowering

Author:Robi Ludwig

“To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.”

Thinking Ideas Care Guy Song Powerful Television Normal Miracle Everyday Radio Everyday Life Mundane Noticing Nobody Cares Really Powerful Weathermen

Author:Gregory Alan Isakov

“I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.”

People Thinking Years Looks Sometimes Film Wealth Rooms Powerful Talking Roles Television Performances Sexy Revolutionary Powerful Women People Talking

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."”

“You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Soul House Powerful Compassion Position Personality Perfection Bigger Seeking Attractive Mates More Money Way Of Thinking Imposing Humbleness

Book:The Seat of the Soul

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.”

People Thinking Hard Humor Funny Faces Can Do Powerful Imagine Having Fun Imagine That Funny Face

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.”

Thinking Men Trying Looks Heart I Can Views Powerful Millions Special Figures Position Harder Dare Boss Reserves Aspire Harsh Special Places Dare To Try

Author:Meryl Streep

“I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.”

Thinking Light Powerful Movement Music Is Clubs Shed Very Powerful Cbgb

Author:Ashley Greene

“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.”

“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Able Simple Powerful Style Design Taste Approach Clothes Ultimate Simplicity Sophistication Less Is More

Author:G-Eazy

“I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.”

Thinking Hard Passion Powerful Willing Letting Go

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”

Thinking Ideas Force Powerful Intellectualism Femme Femme Fatale

Author:Lana Del Rey

“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”

Thinking Mind May Turns Wish My Own Powerful Path Honesty Conviction Sufficient Straight Path

Book:Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

Source: Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

“Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external.”

Thinking World Remember Powerful Positive Thinking Internals

Author:J. P. Blake

“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.”

Thinking Feels Doe States Political Rooms Powerful Principles Rights Limits Authority Stronger Majority Liberalism Spite Expenses Political Rights

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”

“This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.”

Thinking World Way Firsts Believe Powerful Power Weak Structure Enormous Working It

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.”

Thinking Want Strong Difficult Powerful Equal Powerful Women Stand Strong

Author:Misty Copeland

“Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Should Hard Easy Powerful Hard Work Perseverance Giving Back

Author:Misty Copeland

“Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Real Home Moving Artist Powerful Written Poet Paid Poetry Is Coming Home Unfair Real Artists Cubicles

Author:Sarah Kay

“Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.”

Thinking Giving Humans Real Beautiful Humanity Energy Chance Human Beings Powerful Acting Creativity Blessing Appreciation Inner Peace Fuel Good Life Torment Treasury Transcending

Author:David Lynch

“Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Fighting Evil Community Powerful Overcoming Oppression Redemption Liberation Weed Reggae Really Powerful Reggae Music Music And Love Fighting Evil

Author:Conor Oberst

“I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.”

Thinking Want Important Country Powerful Greater Building Contribution Pakistan

Author:Samina Baig

“We need somebody that can unify a country in spite of a vocal powerful media that's intent on division. It's not about winning the media. It's about winning the people, and I don't think it's necessarily persuasive to eat - to cannibalize yourself. I think that you have to pick the winner.”

People Thinking Needs Country Winning Powerful Media Picks Winner Spite Division Vocal Persuasive

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.”

Thinking Real Character Dream Powerful Moral Morality Behavior Capitalism Assuming Tension Pipe Pipe Dreams Moral Behavior

Author:Michael Pollan

“I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.”

Thinking Powerful Behinds Written Reader Code Buried Layers Very Powerful Magnet Reciprocal

Author:William Gibson

“[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.”

Thinking Men Lasts Powerful Fields Position Males Hills Workplace Capitol Plantations Capitol Hill

Author:Andrea Mitchell

“While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.”

Thinking Firsts War Force Goal Powerful Stage Fronts Victory Finals Operations Accomplished Reaching Soviet Troops Sober Strategic Entrances Armed Forces Disregarded Infusion

Author:Ivan Bagramyan

“Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!”

People Thinking Men Powerful Creatures Eating Beast Kitchen Sharks Toasters Wild Creatures

Author:Ted Danson

“I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.”

Thinking Men Mean Problem Strong Powerful Smell Pleasant Very Strong Masculine Fragrance Overbearing

Author:Clive Owen

“I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!”

Thinking Men Would Be Interesting Powerful Nice Attractive Being Nice Terrific Men Women Powerful Man Power Man

Author:Dorothy Stratten

“I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”

Thinking Knows Want Doe Mother Strong Powerful Successful Example Inspire Activist Strong Women Powerful Women Good Examples Her Beauty Good Mother

Author:Erin Heatherton

“I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.”

Thinking Powerful Snow Atmosphere

Author:Kate Bush

“Meditation, especially for people who dont know very much about it and think its this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.”

People Thinking Knows Powerful Meditation Flying Dust Lifts Subconscious

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.”

Thinking Government Views Powerful Very Powerful

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.”

Thinking Art Important Reality Interest Challenges Powerful Groups Function Accepted Interest Groups

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even self-doubt because there aren't that many who've gone before you. And I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent. To know what it is we want to do rather than going into institutions thinking that the institution is going to frame for us.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Writing Self Faces Wish Deals Powerful Fiction Gone Clear Doubt Theory Intellectual Tools Institutions Discrimination Most Powerful Non Fiction Self-doubt

Author:Bell Hooks

“What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.”

Thinking Interesting Powerful Position Appearance Sexuality Fertility

Author:Anna Holmes

“I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.”

Thinking Powerful Influence Inevitable Dylan

Author:Paul Simon

“In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.”

Ifs Thinking Country States Happens Together Past United Powerful United States Band Happenings Appreciate Wings Other Countries Threatened Clip

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Strong Natural Powerful Know How Just One Very Strong Natural Things

Author:Alber Elbaz

“The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.”

Thinking Term Powerful Race Class Privilege Gender Invisible Luxury Categories Marginalized

Author:Michael Kimmel

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.”

Thinking Real Love Is Powerful Ready Crush Most Powerful Real Love Being In Love

Book:Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell In Love

Source: Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell In Love

“I do think the position I play is a powerful position.”

Thinking Play Powerful Position

Author:Denise Morrison

“I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.”

People Thinking Dream Interesting Powerful Successful Busy Engaged Successful People Really Interesting Really Happy Happy People

Book:Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

Source: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

“The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Moving Results Powerful Moral Nice Century Hundred Twenties Raises Sells Competition Ships Coaching Abundance Zero Collaboration Tides Good Sense Scarcity Mentoring

Author:Daniel Burrus

“What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.”

Thinking Littles Matter Sound Community Powerful Amount

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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