Powerful Thinking Quotes

#1. When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

#2. I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world.

Beyonce Knowles

#3. I had discovered that writing
with whatever instrument
was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

Albert Brooks

#5. This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

Elizabeth Janeway

#6. I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

David E. Hoffman

#7. If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

James Van Praagh

#8. Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

Lenny Henry

#9. As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that's digital.

Ray Kurzweil

#10. There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Laura Bush

#11. I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#12. I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Paul Simon

#13. Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.

Michael Hyatt

#14. If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Paige Rawl

#15. When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.

Bob Proctor

#16. Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

Barack Obama

#17. I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#18. To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.

Gregory Alan Isakov

#19. I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.

Panda Bear

#20. In your thoughts, you need to be selective. Thoughts are powerful vehicles of attention. Only think positive thoughts about yourself and your endeavors, and think well of the endeavors of others.

Frederick Lenz

#21. I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Spike Lee

#22. The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

Amby Burfoot

#23. If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

U.G. Krishnamurti

#24. I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.

Neal Stephenson

#25. I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

Scott Weiland

#26. Jump Street merging with MiB I think that's clean and rad and powerful.

Jonah Hill

#27. Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our information economy, patterns that make up the traffic of our cities, and on over to the way the stars and galaxies formed.

DJ Spooky

#28. What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.

Austin Carlile

#29. Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

Robi Ludwig

#30. Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.
It's the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.

Amy Collette

#31. We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.

David F. Wells

#32. You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

Ellen DeGeneres

#33. People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.

Richard Koch

#34. Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

Bryant McGill

#35. It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Susan Sontag

#36. Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

Taylor Swift

#37. It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Jonathan Alter

#38. I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.

Angela N. Blount

#40. There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.

Bob Lutz

#41. I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.

Jessica Valenti

#42. When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#43. The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT skills. I dream of a digital India.

Narendra Modi

#44. Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.

Les Brown

#45. While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful.

Jill Telford

#46. What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.

Anna Holmes

#47. Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

Bertrand Russell

#48. The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

Deborah Day

#49. The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

Frederick Lenz

#50. For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.

Haile Gerima

#51. Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Joseph Sugarman

#52. I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

Colin Callender

#53. The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!

Tony Robbins

#54. Think about everything that you hear, feel everything that you see, love everything that is worthy of love.

Kardinal Offishall

#55. When I don't make a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and make a decision not to make a decision.

P. V. Narasimha Rao

#56. I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.

Evan Rachel Wood

#57. You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

Sonia Friedman

#58. The most powerful thing in life...is our thinking, which has ability to change any situation."

Shashank Rayal

Sterna Kruger

#59. When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

Elizabeth George

#60. Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

Eckhart Tolle

#61. Thinking is action ... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

Robert Ringer

#62. These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

Helen Lawrenson

#63. I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

Emma Watson

#64. It is only as powerful as it is relevant in a given scenario. I think we need to be clear it is not a magic bullet in post-conviction cases.

Chris Asplen

#65. Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Gil Courtemanche

#66. Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.

Pearl Zhu

#67. It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

Misty Copeland

#68. I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

Barack Obama

#69. You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.

Suze Orman

#70. Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

Gordon Parks

#71. A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

Alan Cooper

#72. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

#73. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon

#74. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Barack Obama

#75. The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.

Harry S. Truman

#76. Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

Juno Temple

#77. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].

Deena Kastor

#78. In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant.

Swami Vivekananda

#79. There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful if they're somewhat powerful. You simply have to remove yourself inwardly from these individuals.

Frederick Lenz

#80. We women are a lot more powerful if we see ourselves as fighters on the same side. But it's easier to judge others - their choices and their bodies - than to think about the struggles we share.

Crystal Renn

#81. The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

Eckhart Tolle

#82. Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

Hannah Arendt

#83. Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis

#84. It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ... what am I grateful for ... and I'm not just thinking about them ... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude

James Arthur Ray

#85. Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

Richard Branson

#86. Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.

George M. Church

#87. The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.

Michael Kimmel

#88. I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful ... and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

Kerry James Marshall

#89. The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Silken Laumann

#90. I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

John Sweeney

#91. What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

Joseph Prince

#92. If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.

Jose Gonzalez

#93. It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

John Landgraf

#94. I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.

Lana Del Rey

#95. I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

A.S. Byatt

#96. For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

Alex Ebert

#97. True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being-free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies-and therefore you can find out what religion is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#98. The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

Gisele Bundchen

#99. From a purely entertainment point of view, to create a movie with a female lead that is empowered with her own sexuality I think is a really powerful thing.

Ashton Kutcher

#100. We can be seduced ... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Jean Vanier