quotes about Use Of Power

last updated: November 28, 2023

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
-- William Glasser

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The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?
-- Al Gini

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“We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.”
“Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved.”
“I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.”

Source : "Random Rules: Dave Willis". Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2008.
“My dentist is actually a highly technical specialist, constantly experimenting with the latest dental research. The equipment he has makes my old dentist look prehistoric.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.”

Source : Susan Cheever (2015). “Home Before Dark”, p.233, Simon and Schuster
“Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.”
“My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.”
“When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.”
“When we talk of architecture, people usually think of something static; this is wrong. What we are thinking of is an architecture similar to the dynamic and musical architecture achieved by the Futurist musician Pratella. Architecture is found in the movement of colours, of smoke from a chimney and in metallic structures, when they are expressed in states of mind which are violent and chaotic.”

Source : "The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells" by Carlo Carra (1913), as translated in: Mary Ann Caws "Manifesto: A Century of Isms," p. 203, 2001.
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”