The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.
Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
the possession of power brings on madness.
To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.
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