Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 89
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.
Michael A. Walsh
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.
Ha Jin
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Leland Ryken
There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.
Dave Eggers
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.
Tim Tebow
Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
Robert McKee
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.
Tom Tomorrow
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.
Gregor Piatigorsky
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
Aaron Koblin
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.
Eli Pariser
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
Cecil Balmond
I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'
Nicki Minaj
“A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think he has finished acting.”
In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat and sloppy, and they're not user friendly. They are inefficient. They cost too much.
Robert M. Gates
