#real power

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieve #doing #know #need #real

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#long #only #out #power #real

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins. ↗

— Harry Bridges

#beliefs #colors #due #i #must

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. ↗

— John Bright

#elect #equal #franchise #gives #itself

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#belt #both #efforts #firmly #leads