Quotes of: Brain-power Keyword

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never ...

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gott...

Love Is a Mix Tape

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with the power to injure. Thus, the effo...

States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

I think it is important to recognize one’s power, one’s capacities, and one’s dreams. We were actually talking about this in the last men’s group we had. We were talking about these dreams they had as kids and how they just disappeared. They ...

To the Survivors

The Power of Less is perfect for achieving goals: Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. At the same time, we’ll look at ways to narrow your focus on your projects, so that you can complete them more effectively and move forward ...

The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential

THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAK...

A Prayer for Owen Meany

The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of course!' is a postponement, for what is it that dir...

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, ...

Ways of Seeing

In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person ...

Who Dares Wins

There is no power like that of prevailing prayer - of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat an...

Samuel Chadwick

A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a wo...

Lavinia

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Biblical

Who has power in his hands has no need to lie; he uses violence.

Turkish

Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine

Diary of a Drug Fiend

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

God, If You're Not Up There, I'm Fucked

For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.

Galileo Galilei

It doesn’t matter what you’ve got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

Guide to Getting It On!

That tingle in the brain is called a word. It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

How to Love an Introvert

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

Brain Droppings

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

Brain Droppings

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life