- 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
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.
- Nov 07, 2020
By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
- Detector
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- Nov 07, 2020
A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.
- Founding Fathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
- American Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
- Diminution
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020