Powerful Quotes

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The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant… — Thomas Eakins
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is… — Carl von Clausewitz
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There… — Jeremy Grantham
Once you can squat with 180 kilograms, your arms and shoulders will come along much more receptively...If you want big arms and shoulders, your first… — Stuart McRobert
Because we love the Lord, we should be spiritually sensitive to moments when the powerful and important truths of the gospel can be shared with… — M. Russell Ballard
The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted emerald… — Leatrice Eiseman
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could… — Osamu Dazai
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. — Jessica Jackley
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you… — Gary Zukav
The powerful don't make revolutions — Marge Piercy
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth. — Unknown Author
The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day,… — Robin Crow
Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives. — Rachel Hamilton
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All… — Clay Shirky
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time… — Mark Nepo
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding
Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful… — Ori Hofmekler
The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us. — Ami Vitale
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a… — Nelson A. Miles
Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey. — Lionel
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both… — Seymour Papert
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and… — Robert Reich
The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable… — Peter Redgrove
We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch… — Robin Lee
One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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