Position Quote by Maria Konnikova

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

— Caroline Myss

“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect,…

— Eckhart Tolle

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

— William Hazlitt

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

“The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting…

— Andy Crouch

Power isn't real, and it isn't earned. If you act like you have it, suddenly you're leading everyone. Perception is reality.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

— Dalai Lama

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

— Robert Sapolsky

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will…

— Leo Tolstoy

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

— Jackson Katz

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson