Joseph Nye Quotes

#1. A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#2. There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In

Steven Weinberg

#3. The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

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#4. Smart power is neither hard nor soft. It is both. Joseph

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#5. That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion

Kailin Gow

#6. power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#7. Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#8. His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

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#9. Limitless opportunities abound, governed only by your focus on achieving them.

Steven Redhead

#10. Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.

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#11. Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

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#12. When humanity stops confusing the construct with the Kingdom - we'll begin to recognize the Truth.

Dana Gore

#13. Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

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#14. I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#15. American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

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#16. It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

Scott Belsky

#17. In 2009, polls showed an impressive "revival of America's global image in many parts of the world reflecting confidence in the new president."53 One poll-based assessment of brand values even suggested the Obama effect was worth $2 trillion in brand equity.

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#18. Terrorism, like theater, is a competition for audience. Shocking events are designed to capture attention, polarize, and provoke overreactions from their targets.

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#19. In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

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#20. Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

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#21. America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

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#22. Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Laozi

#23. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

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#24. Globalization has made national boundaries more porous but not irrelevant. Nor does globalization mean the creation of a universal community.

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#25. Transformational leaders are important because they make choices that most other leaders would not.

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#26. The world is neither unipolar, multipolar, nor chaotic - it is all three at the same time.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#27. Please don't worry that yoga will contradict your religious belief systems, as Pranashama Yoga embraces all religions and beliefs systems. I believe we are all One and that Love is the highest truth. Love is my Religion.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#28. What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises from the attractiveness of a country's culture, political ideals, and policies.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#29. There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

Spencer Pratt

#30. Though I am not a fan of TV - it's mankind's greatest time-waster, the gift was completely appropriate, since I'll be in bed so much at the end. TV will be one of my last links to the outside world.

Randy Pausch

#31. Information is power, and modern information technology is spreading information more widely than ever before in history.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#32. Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

John Paul Jones

#33. We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

#34. America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.

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#35. Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

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#36. During the twentieth century, America recorded its highest percentage of foreign-born residents in 1910: 14.7 percent of the population. A century later, about 40 million people or nearly 13 percent of Americans today are foreign-born citizens.

Joseph S. Nye Jr.

#37. As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

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#38. The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

Bruce Lee