#power

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#course #does #energy #energy sources #everything

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#get #i #knowledge #people #power

My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#bands #blood #challenge #composers #drum

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#planet #power #role #sound

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#corny #how #i #into #know

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#controversial #course #interest #media #most

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

#built #creators #fellow #fellow men #human

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. ↗

— Saul Williams

#different way #emanate #most #most powerful #political