His Powers Quotes

57 His Powers quotes by 52 unique authors

With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to… — Will Schwalbe
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. — Orison Swett Marden
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. — Ken Bruen
Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is… — James L Hymes
The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. — Samuel Johnson
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,… — Charles Buck
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve… — Charles M. Schwab
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. — Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. — Erich Fromm
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. — Frederick Douglass
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his… — John Ruskin
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers… — James Thurber
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers… — Stephen King
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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