William Powers Quotes

#1. Rather than allowing external forces to define how we feel inside, each of us can be our own thermostat.

William Powers

#2. In a multi-tasking world where pure focus is harder and harder to come by, paper's seclusion from the Web is an emerging strength. There's nothing like holding a sheaf of beautifully designed pages in your hands. The whole world slows down, and your mind with it.

William Powers

#3. That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.

William Powers

#4. The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.

William Powers

#5. When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking stops.

William Powers

#6. This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

William Powers

#7. By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.

William Powers