Power Quote by Mary Beard Download Open image ““We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for,”” — Mary Beard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Power
“Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.” — Dean M. Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Every difficulty draws us toward a higher power than ourselves.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“It's not what power you have. It's what you do with the power you have that defines you. We all have power. What's yours?” — R.S.J. Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Those in power don't need more power. They need criticism. They need a mirror.” — historian Zeev Sternhell Copy Share Image
“The greatest power I have is that which I give myself … and in the quiet of the darkness, I see only what must… — Shae Ford Copy Share Image
“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.' — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.” — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
