Powerful Quotes

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

~ Neville Chamberlain

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

~ Ferdinand Foch

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

~ H. Jackson Brown

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

~ Barbara De Angelis

The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has a clear place in parenting, as anyone who has tried to potty-train a recalcitrant toddler with sticker rewards knows.

~ Emily Oster

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

~ Taylor Swift

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

~ Jillian Rose Banks

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.

~ Dean Ornish

A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

~ Omari Hardwick

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

~ Tracy Morgan

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

~ Henry Winkler

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

~ John Marshall

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

~ Nancy Duarte

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

~ Quentin Bryce

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

~ Marcel Proust

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

~ Alton Brown

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

~ Jim Fowler

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.

~ Jason Fried

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

~ Jaron Lanier

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

~ Martin Rees

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

~ Niklas Zennstrom

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.

~ Mordechai Vanunu

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

~ Jefferson Han

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

~ Margaret Wertheim

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

~ Michio Kaku

As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.

~ James Lankford

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

~ Bill O'reilly

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.

~ Donatella Versace

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

~ George Lucas

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

~ Tony Wilson

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

~ Adam Hamilton

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

~ Noam Chomsky

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

~ Andy Goldsworthy

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

~ Dan Brown

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

~ Ivan Pavlov

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

~ John Charles Polanyi