Really Powerful Quotes

• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• I don't count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. That is when I start counting, because then it really counts. That's what makes you a champion.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Hurt, Powerful

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• Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Powerful, Leader, Trying

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• When you make a decision, you don't have to be locked into it. One of the ways that you grow is by starting over. There are all kinds of really powerful things in that moment, which is what makes story work. Part of Laurie's Keller personality is this ability to revise, to come back and to look at things from a different angle. I don't want to tell stories too much out of school, but Laurie Keller is the only person who sent me a card on my birthday and then sent me a revision.

  Mo Willems

  Powerful, School, Starting Over

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core. He makes me want to be a better person, but then he also sees me and reminds me that I am a good person.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Beautiful, Powerful, Husband

  Interview with Hillary Sawchuk, adrinkwith.com. March 22, 2016.

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• You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me that felt really powerful and sensual in a way that was more feminine. For me, it's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day you wake up feeling masculine, and one day you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

  Arca

  Girl, Powerful, Boys

  "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. November 19, 2015.

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• The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

  Charlie Munger

  Powerful, Civilization, People

  "Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs". Charlie Munger's Herb Kay Undergraduate Lecture at the Economics Department of University of California in Santa Barbara, October 3, 2003.

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• I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids here?' It's such a weird question. Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are. It would be comparable to me going to a guy, 'Do you feel like you see your kids enough?'

  Amy Poehler

  Powerful, Kids, Men

  "Amy Poehler Is Really Making Herself Uncomfortable" by Benjamin Svetkey, www.fastcompany.com. May 11, 2015.

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• In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Boredom, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.3, Routledge

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• I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.

  Errol Morris

  Powerful, Real, One Day

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

  Daveigh Chase

  Powerful, Real, Dark

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• When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

  Doug Martsch

  Growing Up, Powerful, Rocks

  "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.

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• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Powerful, Smart, Expectations

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• I never was taught how to go into a meeting and talk about a tour and how to plan a show, but seeing that side of things [about] someone who wants to be a Unicorn but has to now be a boss and navigate this is a really powerful and interesting story.

  Lilly Singh

  Powerful, Interesting, Boss

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved. I'm not a religious guy, in fact I'm probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful.

  Chris Pine

  Spiritual, Religious, Powerful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Powerful, Stuff, Expecting

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• There's still people that do it poorly... and people that do it very, very well. I think there's still an incredible spectrum. I guess there's something that's appealing in it, in that everyone on some level is a DJ. But people still go to clubs, and there's still... it is interesting - with everyone having an iPod now - when music is so personalised and things like Pandora and making your own playlists, there's something really powerful about a room full of people all dancing to the same song.

  Chris Baio

  Song, Powerful, Thinking

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• I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

  Mike Vallely

  Powerful, Who I Am, Ideas

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from people I wasn't expecting. It's cathartic on many different levels. As I get older, I realize it's so much better to connect with people. It makes everything better to connect. Only connect. Why not have my art be about that? I think of it as moving from the third person to the first.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Art, Powerful, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to go really dark and deep with yourself and get your hands dirty and go into territories that you don't want to go into and feel things that you don't want to feel, but that's what ultimately pushes out the good and gives you some kind of a message that you can take and channel into something better. That energy's really powerful.

  Diane Birch

  Powerful, Dirty, Dark

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Hurt, Powerful, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I can't quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it's actually a beautiful practice. It's giving of yourself to a higher power - no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Beautiful, Powerful, Dad

  "Actress Gabourey Sidibe On Anxiety, Phone Sex And Life After 'Precious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 08, 2017.

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• One of the really powerful things that's going on in this country right now in 2017 is watching attorney generals like Eric Schneiderman in New York and Maura Healey in Massachusetts take on the oil companies that systematically have lied. Exxon is mainly in the crosshairs right now. That have systematically lied for a quarter century.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Powerful, Lied

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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