Power Quotes

"Software programs are going to become the new labor force."

"The support of my family and fans is my greatest strength."

"The more we try to control nature, the more it rebels against us."

"True strength is the ability to sing your truth when your voice is shaking."

"I pour my tears into melodies so that others might find comfort in them."

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."

"Never underestimate the power of a small group of dedicated people."

"I believe in the power of data."

"The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies."

"AGI will be the greatest force for economic empowerment ever created."

"Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches."

"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."

"There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be."

"People abusing their power makes me see red."

"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."

"Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance."

"I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings."

"To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable."

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them."

"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."

"My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little."

"Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds."

"There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it."

"Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country."

"If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio."

"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires."

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."

"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command."

"The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't."

"One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi."

"Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites."

"For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized."

"Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to understanding the dangers of disarming."

"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

"It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."

"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women."

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldn't let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career."

"The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand."

"I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control."

"You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball."

"Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question."

"Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler."

"We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise."

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."

"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."