The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

— Haruki Murakami

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means…

— Allan Bloom

I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded.…

— Jane Swisshelm

The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a…

— Stephen Batchelor

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we…

— Ellen Goodman

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,…

— Ivan Krastev

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that…

— Mara Liasson

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen…

— Peter Schiff

Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our…

— Bob Proctor