Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. — Richard Seymour Copy Share Image
Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
It's so much work to make a movie, and for me it has to get me off my butt. To get me… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Eazy was an exceptional human being. He was a visionary. He was very Machiavellian, he understood power and how to use it.… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that when you have political capital, you should use it in a manner that helps improve the human condition.… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
If we keep this question in mind while planning our days, we will see that we actually have countless opportunities to add… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger;… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
If you don't like the circumstances you find yourself in, you're the only one with the power to change it. So take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Regalia Mason liked to be early to meetings; it was an interesting way of making others feel uncomfortable. If the most important… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's… — Kelela Copy Share Image
We have the authority to take action, ... But responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
I was always very shy and scared in my classes, but then after school I'd go to drama club and I was… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
People give more importance to material things, it all seems to be a power game, while people ought be making the most… — Rekha Copy Share Image
I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice,… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
