What Is Power Quotes

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

Harness the power of peers.

"Mad" magazine is like one of my few formative experiences, absolutely. "Mad" magazine teaches a whole generation of people to be irreverent toward power.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.

Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time.

Your vulnerability is your power.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power

I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

Believe triggers the power to do.

If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

President Bush says now he is sticking to his plan for handing over power to the Iraqis on June 30. It's also part of his plan to hand over power to John Kerry on January 20.