#power

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#carefully #certainly #chosen #convenient #copy

Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#accountable #force #good #government #just

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#believe #believe in yourself #cannot #confidence #faith

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#except #nothing #our #own #power

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#forgive #get #god #how #hurt

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. ↗

— River Phoenix

#control #enough #i #irrational #kids

Official truths are often powerful illusions. ↗

— John Pilger

#official #often #powerful #truths

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#aware #because #destructive #environment #fragile

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

— Roger Mudd

#believe #gets #journalists #more #more and more