Most Powerful Quotes - Page 33

• Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

  Pat Summitt

  Powerful, Team, Responsibility

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.38, Crown Business

  1272 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.

  Tony Hoare

  Powerful, Real, Learning

  25 Copy quote

• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

  154 Copy quote

• Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.

  Diane MacEachern

  Powerful, Business, Impact

  4 Copy quote

• Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.

  Ben Cohen

  Powerful, Business, Practice

  10 Copy quote

• The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, People, Inner Strength

  7 Copy quote

• Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

  Julien Benda

  Powerful, War, Mind

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Dream, Powerful

  4 Copy quote

• The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Powerful, Men, Skills

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.

  Colin Firth

  Country, Powerful, Government

  12 Copy quote

• Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Powerful, Mean, Law

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.5, McGraw-Hill Professional

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Women, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

  Paul Gauguin

  Powerful, Winning, Tools

  12 Copy quote

• Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Powerful, Creativity

  18 Copy quote

• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, and the separation of the most powerful two blocs we've ever had in history, which went all the way through Germany.

  Markus Wolf

  Powerful, Heart, Europe

  8 Copy quote

• Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Government, Pockets

  56 Copy quote

• There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Gratitude, Powerful, Grateful

  12 Copy quote

• Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.

  David McCullough

  Powerful, Views, People

  4 Copy quote

• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

  10 Copy quote

• There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

  Octavius Winslow

  Sympathy, Powerful, Real

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 574, 1895.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.

  William Sims

  Powerful, War, Enemy

  6 Copy quote

• I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.

  Leonard Lauder

  Life, Motivation, Powerful

  4 Copy quote

• Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Powerful, Military, War

  "New world disorder". www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

  Ai Weiwei

  Powerful, Environment, Protection

  4 Copy quote