Powerful Quotes - Page 24

• You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you?... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

  John Roberts

  Sex, Fall, Gay

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• As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Goal, Grows

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• Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

  Les Brown

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Order

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• The status quo is a very powerful opiate and when you have a system that seems to be working and producing profits by the conventional way of accounting for profits. It's very hard to make yourself change. But we all know that change is an inevitable part of business. Once you have ridden a wave just so far, you have to get another wave. We all know that. For us, becoming restorative has been that new wave and we have been riding it for 13 years now. It's been incredibly good for business.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Responsibility, Years

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• Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

  Les Brown

  Fear, Empowering, Special

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• You have the courage and power to live your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Dream, Power

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• You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

  Les Brown

  Nature, Goal, Mind

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• Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

  Les Brown

  Sky, Pie, Goal

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• John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy.
  I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

  Carlos Santana

  Names, Mind, Brain

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• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Army, Administration, Colonialism

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• For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

  John Howard

  Real, Men, Long

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• See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.

  Les Brown

  Fear, Eye, Mind

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, People, Design

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• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  John Olver

  Taken, Years, Ice

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• Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Thinking, Pay

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• Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.

  Seth

  Advertising, Relevant

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• We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

  Seth

  Censorship, Resilient, Produce

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• The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.

  Les Brown

  Life, Real, Past

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• The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

  Ted Turner

  Suicide, Military, Fighting

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

  Ed Parker

  Students, Respectful, Produce

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• Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Take action in order to move toward your goals.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?

  Peter Atkins

  Simple, Thinking, Inspire

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• It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

  Paul Goodman

  People, Community, Genius

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.38, New York Review of Books

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• Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

  James H. Douglas

  Land, Work Ethic, Legacy

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