Powerful Quotes - Page 29

• The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.

  Gary Busey

  Mind, Use, Vulnerable

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when you worry about whether a well-meaning gesture could produce complications. We have no problems with countries like Madagascar or Bolivia, for example. But Germany is our neighbor and we have a shared past. Besides, Germany is powerful and ambitious and more than four times as large as we are. It makes complete sense that we would act cautiously. It's simply Realpolitik.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Past, Worry

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• The rosary is the most powerful weapon to touch the Heart of Jesus, Our Redeemer, who loves His Mother.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Judging, Mind, Watches

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  People, Young, Happens

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Taken, Thinking, Numbers

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

  Maya Angelou

  Kings, Heart, Mind

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I've always had a very developed superego. I also had a very powerful id, but there was no ego in the middle. So writing was always like letters sent from the id to the superego, saying, "What's going on here?" What I loved about writing was that I was totally weightless. I was amazed at the fact that I could be myself without being afraid that anyone would get hurt.

  Etgar Keret

  Hurt, Writing, Ego

  Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, www.believermag.com. April 2006.

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• Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, War, Fighting

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.

  Blake Butler

  Jesus, Memories, Reality

  "'We don't realize what we're walking on half the time'". Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sports, Hate, Racism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Rights, Turkeys, Ideas

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• Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Long, Progress

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Never stop trying to impress your partner. If you can both stay in that place, when you really want to show the best of yourselves to each other, relationships can become such a powerful team.

  Matthew Hussey

  Team, Trying, Want

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Goth Juice... The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Fictional character: Vince Noir". "The Mighty Boosh", www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2007.

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• I believe social media is a powerful tool to transform our planet.

  Mallika Chopra

  Believe, Media, Tools

  Interview with Amber Zuckswert, epicself.com. October 28, 2011.

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• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Empathy, Satisfaction

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Thinking, America, Culture

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent change. It also means to respect the freedom of everybody, and to not accept big organizations or rich, powerful people holding power.

  Costa-Gavras

  Mean, Government, Organization

  Source: progressive.org

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• Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Simple, Today

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• By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Mean, Achievement

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Voice, Deeds

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Kids, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Real, Issues, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

  Philip Schultz

  Art, Struggle, Work Out

  Source: poems.com

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