Powerful Quotes

"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed"

Galen Rowell, Photographer

"I think music can have a very powerful effect on people. It can change the way they feel about things, and sometimes that can be a good thing"

David Gilmour, Musician

"When you're out in the wilderness, you're living in the moment. You're not thinking about the past or the future. You're just living in the present, and that's a very powerful experience"

Liv Arnesen, Explorer

"I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary"

Francis W. Newman, Writer

"You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies"

William H. Macy, Actor

"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand"

Mark Rydell, Director

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated"

Jena Malone, Actress

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription"

Norman Cousins, Author

"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"I was holding a reserve inside all along. When you're with someone as powerful as Donald, you have no choice. You can get lost within that power if you're not careful"

Marla Maples, Actress

"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States"

Julian McMahon, Actor

"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful"

Joan Didion, Author

"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise"

Robert Martin, Politician

"I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

"I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around"

Leonard Orr, Celebrity

"Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores"

Thomas Wolfe, Novelist

"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it"

Sarah Silverman, Comedian

"Ideas are more powerful than people"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful"

Rita Dove, Poet

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