#pow

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#answer #appointment #behalf #ceo #children

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#answer #bill #bill gates #boom #different

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#cash #check #companies #consolidation #continuing

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#creates #money #payer #power #relationship

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. ↗

— Alija Izetbegovic

#active role #although #cards #destiny #great

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#creates #dad #day #dipping #everything

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#forward #power #thrust

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#child #children #evil #feel #him