Harness Quotes - Page 5

• If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of "American Idol" through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Idols, Political, Tools

  "Television Debates Are Antiquated" by Ruzwana Bashir, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2012.

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• There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

  Allan Hamilton

  Emotional, Get Better, Energy

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our lives, we can accomplish whatever we set out to do, no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Overcoming, Tasks

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• Our task is to harness the God-given energy of this German nation to stand firm for the Truth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Energy, Tasks, Given

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• This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

  Willa Cather

  Running, Horse, Land

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

  Helen Keller

  Stars, Wagons, Doe

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.163, Om Books International

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• It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness").
  [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

  Vespasian

  Death, Emperor, Standing

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• We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Able, Chaos, Form

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• Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Animal, Agriculture

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• Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Trying, Creation

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, World, Trouble

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.24, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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• I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Survival, Age

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• In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Organization, Creative, Intellectual

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• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, Order

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• A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

  John F. Kennedy

  Income, Revolution, Farming

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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• Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

  Frances Beinecke

  Together, Want, Energy

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• The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

  John le Carre

  Struggle, Stories, World

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• Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Fall, Tides, Sun

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• Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze me with each wave ridden; I am honored to take on such an empowering responsibility. I look forward to celebrating these artists of big wave surfing through showcasing the most important wave in history.

  Griffin Guess

  Athlete, Responsibility, Artist

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• The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Issues, Life Is, Instinct

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.217, Beacon Press

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• The love of our eternal parents, Earth Mother and Sky Father, is all-embracing and will continue to provide for us, but only if we respect the earth, the sky, and the waters that mediate between them. We need to harness our science and technology to protect the domains of Papa and Wakea, not desecrate them.

  Rubellite Kawena Johnson

  Mother, Father, Technology

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• It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Angel, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.

  Barack Obama

  Land, American West, Giving

  "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2009.

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