Powerful Engine Quotes

#1. What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth ... The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

Paul Samuelson

#2. But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

Jonathan Maberry

#3. You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life - it is your ever changing mind.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?

Jon Ronson

#5. An adult mind that is brimming with chunks is a powerful engine of reason, but it comes with a cost: a failure to communicate with other minds that have not mastered the same chunks.

Steven Pinker

#6. Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.

Jonathan Maberry

#7. Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Alfred Marshall

#8. Plato understood love as a powerful engine that can destroy mankind or turn us to the good. Christ made that turn possible, and Spenser shows what can be done in the human soul if we take it.

John Mark Reynolds

#9. In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Water gushing out of thousands of springs at different places cannot move the wheels of a big engine to carry out very heavy tasks. But the channeled flow of the same water in the bed of a stream will, however, be irresistible and can become a source of tremendous energy.

Gulzarilal Nanda

#11. The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected. What else can drive the bizarre shifts in the entertainment landscape that will keep us "buying"? Psychopathy is the only engine powerful enough to light our imaginations, to drive the arts, sciences and industries of the world.

J.G. Ballard

#12. Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

George Lois

#13. When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

Ben Carson

#14. Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

Sandy Berger

#15. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Richard Rogers

#16. Yes, I've lost him. But I don't have to lose myself.

Lenore Appelhans

#17. I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Dalai Lama

#18. Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

Walter Benjamin

#19. As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Mia Hamm

#20. Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Sergey Brin

#21. We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

Frederick Lenz

#22. You bang that piano real nice.

Albert Collins

#23. As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#24. It felt so good just to be held

Lauren Kate

#25. There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

John Scalzi

#26. Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

Caroline Kepnes

#27. Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#28. I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Romola Garai

#29. Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Ken Robinson

#30. The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Barry Commoner