Quotes with powerful

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles A. Garfield Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Ansel Adams Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • William Wordsworth Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • B. F. Skinner Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Butch Trucks Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brene Brown Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Carol P. Christ Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • J. G. Ballard Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Cass McCombs Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Harry S. Truman The atom bomb was no ''great decision.'' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Michael Caine The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.
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  • Angela Davis The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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