“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.” ThinkingPowerfulBehindsWrittenReaderCodeBuriedLayersVery PowerfulMagnetReciprocal Author:William Gibson
“Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.” PeopleNeedsArtImportantSometimesHelpingShowsIndividualProcessForgetPowerfulSuccessfulBenefitsTasksAskingResponsibleManagementStrategyRelyEmpoweringStaffVery PowerfulBeing ResponsibleInterdependenceSuccessful BusinessNeed HelpAsking For Help Author:Georgette Mosbacher
“The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.” KnowsPowerfulFireElementsVery PowerfulUnstoppable Author:Alicia Keys
“Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.” Love IsPowerfulMistakeLimitsSpreadVery Powerful Author:Tom Robbins
“It is not advisable for persons who are in the early stages of meditation to mediate on the two lower chakras. You will unleash powers and forces that will throw you into very powerful altered state of consciousness that might not be pleasant at all.” PersonsTwoStatesMightForcePowerfulConsciousnessMeditationStageBuddhismPleasantVery PowerfulAlteredChakraStates Of ConsciousnessChakra MeditationAdvisableAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.” ThinkingGovernmentViewsPowerfulVery Powerful Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.” MotivationPowerfulHellVery Powerful Author:Richard Dawkins
“And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.” WayWritingKindFeelingsWantedRomanceYoungInterestPowerfulFantasyChildhoodAdultsYoung AdultKingdomsGradesFifthVery PowerfulSixth GradeFifth Grade Author:Wes Anderson
“Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.” PowerfulVery PowerfulHavoc Author:Milton Friedman
“The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.” WorldImportantNextOpportunityPowerfulGenerationsShareCommunicationImportant ThingsAround The WorldEaseOur FamilyImprovingNext GenerationVery PowerfulMothering Author:Quentin Bryce
“The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.” MadePowerfulObjectsUniqueCriticismMade ItJapanBureaucracyContinuityVery PowerfulPillarsPillar Of Strength Author:F. Sionil José
“Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.” CultureCoursesLanguagePowerfulCrueltyDestroyedVitalityVery PowerfulOther Cultures Author:Louise Erdrich
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.” TryingFactsViewsPowerfulCommonOne ThingStupidFitVery PowerfulVery Stupid Author:Tom Baker
“My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.” ThreePowerfulHusbandVery PowerfulPowerful Women Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind and then it really doesn't matter what you do.” IfsMindWellsMatterStatesPowerfulPracticeMeditationBuddhismState Of MindVery Powerful Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.” KnowsWantPersonsPowerfulDestroyingWowVery PowerfulParanoia Author:Robert Greene
“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.” PeoplePowerfulEmotionLeaderClassMiddlePeriodsEmpathyEducatedRevolutionaryMiddle ClassCommunistVery PowerfulPowerful Emotions Author:Hamza Yusuf
“One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.” WritingSaidGovernmentHappensWantedNamesPowerfulMorningProveLettersDecidedAbsolutesNewspapersOfficialsImpressiveVery PowerfulToastsFriesImbecilesGovernment OfficialsFrench FriesPowerful GovernmentFrench Toast Author:Johnny Depp
“The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.” KnowsTryingSoulSelfFeelingsHomeFormPurposeForcePrayerPowerfulKnowingPathDivineReturnEvolutionLongingDenyDrivingYour SoulPurpose Of LifeAgonyWholenessDiscontentVery PowerfulHeedReunion Author:Alan Cohen
“The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.” NeedsShouldMindPowerfulPlanesFirmGuidancePilotsVery PowerfulJetJet Planes Author:Thubten Yeshe
“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.” PainSimplePowerfulEvidenceTraditionDoctorsPatientBeing TrueTherapyInjuryIngredientsContractsSurgeryInterventionVery PowerfulTime SpentBack Pain Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
“A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.” DoeRealityMovingForcePowerfulMeditationBuddhismPlanesVery PowerfulMantrasVibratePowerful Words Author:Frederick Lenz
“Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.” WorldPowerfulComputerToolsVery Powerful Author:Margaret Wertheim
“Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.” ThinkingKindDifferentHumanityForcePowerfulDiversityGood ThingsDifferent KindsVery Powerful Author:George M. Church
“The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.” TryingBelieveHappensPowerfulGood ThingsTongueVery Powerful Author:Ciara
“I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.” PeopleThinkingWayReasonCharacterSchoolCertainActorsPowerfulHigh SchoolGood ThingsPermanentVulnerabilityHelpfulLoserVery Powerful Author:Sigourney Weaver
“I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.” ThinkingIdeasPowerfulInfluentialVery Powerful Author:Sarah Polley
“I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.” WantTryingKindSometimesFactsFilmPowerfulToo MuchProductsHorrorStudiosAccidentsI RealizedGenreFallenParadigmVery PowerfulSkirtsHorror Film Author:Wes Craven
“For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.” IfsThinkingPersonsIdeasWould BeLostPowerfulKnowingMysteryShameClassicBreakfastYou ChooseNot KnowingVery PowerfulSeductiveExposing Author:Theo James
“Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.” HumansLongTogetherLastsHuman BeingsPowerfulInstinctVery PowerfulGet Together Author:E. Jean Carroll
“The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.” EnergyPeaceWaterCommunityPowerfulCommonTechnologySunSecurityClimateBeltsVery Powerful Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal
“If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can give, people can't do that; that sort of thing where it's very powerful, it's kind of your first love and your first real relationship, and usually your first experience with death.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsKindRealPowerfulDogPetUnconditional LoveFirst LoveUnconditionalVery PowerfulReal Relationship Author:Tim Burton
“Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.” MenYearsWarTodayMotherFightingPowerfulDemocracyFiguresPoliticianIndiaMalesIndianDefeatedPakistanVery PowerfulAmbiguousSuspendedDominating Author:Aravind Adiga
“I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.” WritingFactsHurtPowerfulMiddleEgoLettersAmazedVery PowerfulBeing AfraidSuperego Author:Etgar Keret
“I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.” PeopleHappensYoungPowerfulThings HappenVery Powerful Author:Christopher Paul Curtis
“Sound is the basis vibration of the universe All those little vortices may get sent going the other way. Sound is really very powerful.” WayMayLittlesUniverseSoundPowerfulBasesVibrationsVery Powerful Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.” PeopleThinkingWantKidsAgeWantedOrderRealizingPowerfulCareersOne ThingKeysToysVery PowerfulLegos Author:Jamie Hyneman
“Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.” WayRealSocialAbilityPowerfulIssuesComedyHorrorConversationProvokingSocial IssuesVery Powerful Author:Jordan Peele
“Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.” PowerfulGroupsOffersVehicleNeverthelessVery PowerfulEmissionsCo2BmwCo2 Emissions Author:Norbert Reithofer
“I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps I wouldn't wear. We've all got different moods and ways we want to express ourselves; scent is a very powerful way to let people in to your secret life.” PeopleIfsWayWantMayDifferentCharacterPowerfulSecretMoodScentPerfumeVery PowerfulSecret LifeDifferent Moods Author:Cate Blanchett
“The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.” KnowsWayYearsHas BeensHardSeemsPowerfulBusinessResponsibilityBecomingWaveProfitInevitableCorporateRidingConventionalSocial ResponsibilityStatus QuoVery PowerfulAccountingOpiatesConventional Ways Author:Ray Anderson
“John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy. I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.” KnowsTryingMindFirstsStillsRememberSpiritualityNamesPowerfulBrainHeardCenturyFitComputerMusicianFirst TimeConcernedPatternsAlbumsSupremeToneDemonMarsMonkeysAssaultGalaxyVery PowerfulLeashesColtraneAlbum CoversGreatest Musician Author:Carlos Santana
“Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.” WorldWantIdeasRealPowerfulConsciousnessHappenedMaterialsKeysRealmsVery PowerfulVisualizationMaterial WorldMesh Author:George Leonard
“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.” Has BeensSaidEndsMomentsPowerfulHappenedHeardAtheismBuildingFineGeniusOne DayBuiltGardenStructurePositive AtheismArguingThat MomentArchitectInstructionReceivingClosetsVery PowerfulMoles Author:Voltaire
“Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.” MindStuffLossPowerfulPsychologicalLoved OnesVery PowerfulBeing AfraidAfraid Of DeathLoss Of A Loved OneDisfigurement Author:John Carpenter
“I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.” EnoughMotherPowerfulGrewGrew UpMy FamilyInspiredOur FamilySelflessVolunteerVery PowerfulPowerful Words Author:Eva Longoria
“I think this is interesting, us human creatures are capable of love, and it's a very powerful emotion. It also can go awfully wrong.” ThinkingHumansInterestingPowerfulEmotionCreaturesCapableVery PowerfulPowerful Emotions Author:Jane Campion
“I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.” ThinkingYearsMindDifferentCoursesReadingLostForceDifferencesPowerfulSceneSeriesOneselfCompareConfusedLocationAmbiguityVery PowerfulSimilarityDifferent TimesGridsGetting LostFinding OneselfLost And Confused Author:David Hockney