Quotes with power…

Quotes 821 till 840 of 958.

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • William Pitt Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Victory; a matter of staying power.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bill Frist Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Haydon We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Stephen R. Covey We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Bootsy Collins We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Deming We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Milan Kundera We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Martin Buber We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Max Lerner We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Joseph Joubert We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Calvin Coolidge We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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