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My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. -- Shawn Ashmore
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors. -- Simon Mainwaring
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -- Toni Morrison
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive. -- Bernie Siegel
As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce. -- Leonard Boswell
I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts. -- Kim Harrison
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. -- Jay Inslee
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power. -- Glenn Greenwald
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. -- Barbara Olson
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns. -- Bernie Sanders
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions. -- Samantha Stosur
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. -- Vince Cable
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. -- Tony Robbins
We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. -- Gray Davis
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. -- Edward Thorndike
BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world. -- Indra Nooyi
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction. -- Gary Zukav
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life. -- Anne Sweeney
Power is the ability to make change. -- Geneva Overholser
Power is the ability to achieve purpose. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Personal power is the ability to take action. -- Tony Robbins
Our power is in our ability to decide. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Power is the ability to get things done -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Power is the ability to get things done. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Ability is active power, or power to perform. -- Noah Webster
Power is the ability to afford not to learn. -- Karl Deutsch
Power is the ability not to have to please. -- Elizabeth Janeway
Power is the ability to do good things for others. -- Brooke Astor
Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done. -- Pat Heim
Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. -- Ian Maclaren
It is in your power to release the ability of God. -- Charles Capps
The only power an actor has is the ability to say: 'No -- Lou Diamond Phillips
Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress. -- Vanna Bonta
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. -- William O. Douglas
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax -- David Allen
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree. -- George Crabbe
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. -- William Matthews
lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. -- Anchee Min
Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner. -- Huey Newton
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force. -- David Prowse
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota. -- John Hoeven
Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way. -- Victoria Justice
In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different. -- Marianne Williamson
The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere. -- Elena Vesnina
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. -- John C. Maxwell
Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others. -- Dalai Lama
America's true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire. -- Robert Byrd
The power of god has given men the ability to realize that he does not exist. -- Andre Santos
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. -- Kate Morton
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly. -- Tariq Ali
Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power. -- Erwin McManus
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power. -- Ertharin Cousin
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself. -- Gary Zukav
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity. -- Charles F. Glassman
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance. -- Bryant McGill
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. -- Elton John
The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways. -- Rebecca Pippert
Your identity depends on your heart's ability to excuse not on the power or the money you own. -- Bharath Mamidoju
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command. -- Thomas Aquinas
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. -- Arnold Palmer
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly. -- Boris Spassky
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time. -- Elbert Hubbard
Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. -- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused. -- Aaron Swartz
The ability to do perform Reiki comes from an internal freedom. The power to be free from stress, tension, and anger. -- Nikita Dudani
Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly. -- Rhonda Britten
Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. -- Ralph Ellison
If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player. -- Nick Morgan
God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. -- Terryl L. Givens
You can measure your power in your ability to stop thought. The longer you can stop thought, the more powerful you are. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. -- T.F. Hodge
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What man does not seek the power of his dreams, and believe in his ability to match the grace of his illusions. -- Daniel J. Rice
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power. -- Alex Berenson
The conductor of an orchestra doesnâ??t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. -- Benjamin Zander
Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle." -- Titus Livy
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please. -- Lois Gould
To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction. -- Joseph Nye
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges. -- Nathaniel Branden
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others. -- Mary Parker Follett
Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given. -- William Powell
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes. -- Evgeny Morozov
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. -- James Cash Penney
Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.' -- Carrie Vaughn
The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. -- David McCullough
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence. -- James Frey
Vision is the ability to see Godâ??s presence, to perceive Godâ??s power, to focus on Godâ??s plan in spite of the obstacles. -- Charles R. Swindoll
We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent. -- Debasish Mridha
The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others. -- Robert Cialdini
Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. -- Tony Robbins
I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call. -- Tiger Woods
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might. -- James Hunter
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. -- Tony Snow
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. -- Pythagoras
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms. -- Michel Foucault
What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself. -- Oprah Winfrey
An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive. -- Yelawolf
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. -- John D. Rockefeller
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. -- Henry Blackaby
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us. -- Theodore Roosevelt
There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others. -- Fred Alan Wolf
Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. -- Orison Swett Marden
The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. -- Aristotle
Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source. -- Maria V. Snyder
One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup. -- Jeremy Begbie
The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading. -- Alberto Manguel

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