Most Powerful Quotes - Page 29

• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  Irving Howe

  Powerful, Mean, Reality

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• The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Powerful, Law Of Attraction, Vibrations

  Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

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• Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

  Washington Gladden

  Powerful, Quiet, Prevailing

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• You have to love yourself. That's the single most powerful thing.

  Nia Peeples

  Powerful, Love You, Love Yourself

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• I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.

  Harold Urey

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Spiritual, Powerful, Thinking

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Trust, Powerful, Appreciate

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

  Brian Tracy

  Encouragement, Powerful, People

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• People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

  Helen Fisher

  Valentines Day, Song, Motivation

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• Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, Weapons

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• A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Powerful, Rights

  "Child abuse and exploitation still a grim reality". Interview with Kanaha Sabapathy, www.radioaustralia.net.au. March 19, 2012.

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• When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on the ground. I thought, "This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer."

  Candace Bushnell

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

  Charles Capps

  Faith, Powerful, Fear

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• Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

  Hyman Bass

  Powerful, Teaching, Math

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• For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Growing Up, Powerful

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• Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.

  Wallace B. Smith

  Powerful, Math, Men

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• The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

  David Bronstein

  Powerful, Moving, Next Move

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• When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.

  Michael Faraday

  Nature, Powerful, Thinking

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• If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Hands, Evil

  "Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder". Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1 Television, www.edge.org. November 12, 1996.

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• Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the most powerful foreign threat. The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Hands, Office

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• All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

  John Lukacs

  Powerful, Age, Century

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• The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

  Blaise Pascal

  Powerful, Night, World

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• Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some ways, but it doesn't serve us as fully as it should; it doesn't serve us fully as people.

  Michael Rennie

  Powerful, People, Challenges

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• In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart.

  Howard Schultz

  Motivational, Powerful, Heart

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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