Quotes of: Staying-power Keyword

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

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected...

The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris

Allegiant

In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.

Aglow With The Spirit

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations