- Nov 07, 2020
Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
- Bureaucrats
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Issue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
- Craft
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- Nov 07, 2020
When water power then steam power were harnessed to spin and weave cloth, a cottage craft turned into an industry overnight.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
- Economic Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020