Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

... I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.

Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

Managing Transitions

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

Leap

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Master and Commander

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Management Culture

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

This Brilliant Darkness

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Pensées

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Pour the Oil

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

The Path to Power

Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it’s eaten in the author’s belly.

The Protest

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Querelle

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

Within These woods: a collection of Northwoods nature essays, with original illustrations by the author

As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves.

Xazaqazax

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

Chris Rock

The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.

Ryan Holmes

I look forward to seeing more of this author's writings. Linda Strong

Forever Until We Meet

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Natalie Merchant