“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.” PeopleIfsShouldDifferentPlayShowsHandsUsedForcePowerfulWatchesTelevisionFoolPoliceMediumsSomething BetterSitcom Author:Roone Arledge
“That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.” DoeCharacterStoriesFilmProcessEnjoyPowerfulWatchesIntenseEntertainingGood Films Author:Sharlto Copley
“Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.” PeopleEnoughWholeAblePowerfulWatchesAudienceHollywoodMachinesCaughtHopefullyCaught UpAlluring Author:Sharlto Copley
“Never try to stop the thoughts. If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful. Yet in reality the mind does not exist. There is no mind. There is no such thing as a mind. So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.” IfsTryingMindDoeRealityWinningPowerfulSilenceWatchesGreaterBiggerWitnessVery PowerfulPower Of The Mind Author:Robert Adams
“The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.” MadeImportantDifferentPowerfulWatchesNovelModernCreationShapesConceptsExtraordinaryAncientTalesProseRemarkableCourageousShiftingNarrators Author:Aminatta Forna
“9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.” PeopleWorldHeartCountryMatterStatesUnitedPowerfulWatchesUnited StatesCapitalismTradeDefenseBordersMost PowerfulNew WorldSignalsCathedralsInterdependencePentagonPowerful Countries Author:Benjamin Barber
“Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.” FeelsMindStillsProblemPowerfulEmotionBehindsWatchesJudgingSilentReactionsObservingPower Of NowWatchersPersonal Problems Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“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