Quotes on Powerful

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.