Quotes of: Power-plant Keyword

And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.

The Bread We Eat in Dreams

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.

The Bookman

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

The Burning Sky

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

Cloud Atlas

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and ...

George W. Bush

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever c...

Virginia Postrel

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

1984

Periapólí can only become the greatest city in the world if every boy and girl is born into a life where anything is possible.

The 4 Powers of Daren Saner

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change