There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.
There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. _x000D_ _x000D_ Yet the most powerful life is not one in which we bring ourselves back to our center when we have spun away from it, but rather one in which we seek to live from that center at all times.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.
The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God.
The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.
The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.
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