Authority Quote by Richard Sennett Download Open image “Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.” — Richard Sennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Imagination Power
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The prerequisite for being in authority is recognizing that one is always under authority.” — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
“[There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“Institutional changes, instead of following the path of a guided arrow, head in different and often conflicting directions: a profitable operating unit is suddenly… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality through experiences… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“The top managers are defensive about these departures; they point to how safe, attractive, and up-to-date the workplace is. Rodney Everts is less defensive… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited;… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes stabylnesse?”—a lament… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
