For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
People. . especially people in positions of power. . have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.
When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
Knowledge is power.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy's voice whispers in our ears, 'You can't do it. ' 'You're too young. ' 'You're too old. ' 'You're nobody. ' This is when we remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth provides a profound sense of strength and power.
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.
While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.
Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.
Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.