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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• 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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• 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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• I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Love, Powerful, Sacrifice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but
  the people who are really powerful.

  Mao Zedong

  Powerful, Reality, Views

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.43, Lulu.com

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• Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.

  Jack Canfield

  Powerful, Levels, Produce

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• Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

  Hilton Als

  Falling In Love, Powerful, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Believe

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

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• I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

  Bill Budge

  Powerful, Urges

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• Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

  Reid Hoffman

  Powerful, People, Want

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• I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Stars, Powerful

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• Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Pain, Powerful, Bills

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.

  Terry Pratchett

  Powerful, Feelings, Once Upon A Time

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

  Sandra Bullock

  Fun, Powerful, Poop

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• There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

  Charles Duhigg

  Powerful, People, Community

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.85, Random House

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• My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, War, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful. Now I use it for a bunch of different situations, whether I'm stressing before a show or something in the day really pisses me off.

  Flume

  Powerful, Stress, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.

  Shepard Fairey

  Powerful, Past, Thinking

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• If you listen to soul music, or R&B music, or Blues music, a lot of that came from church music and spiritual music, and music has always been a really really powerful tool that people have used to get them closer to God - whatever they define God as. And for me that's always been part of what drew me to it and keeps me coming back for more.

  Joan Osborne

  Spiritual, Powerful, Church Music

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• Storytelling with music is a really powerful device.

  Randy Harrison

  Powerful, Storytelling, Music Is

  "Randy Harrison's the new Emcee in "Cabaret"". Interview with Tony Bravo, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2016.

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• Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Powerful, Technology

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology.

  Khoi Vinh

  Powerful, Technology, Infrastructure

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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