Project Power Quotes

#1. What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce.

Joel Kotkin

#2. Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.

David Ignatius

#3. ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

Jeb Bush

#4. We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.

Rand Paul

#5. At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Simon Van Der Meer

#6. Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

George Soros

#7. The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'

Marshall Goldsmith

#8. Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Damon Galgut

#9. The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. because women were also believed to be closer to the raw forces of nature than were males, controlling their power was, for the adult male, part of the larger project of creating human civilization itself.

Thomas Van Nortwick

#11. The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

Sam Harris

#12. Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

John Robbins

#13. We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

Rick Perry

#14. To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately.

James Pearse Connelly

#15. The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

Gary Ross

#16. He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

Colin Powell

#17. Education is inherently socially inclusive; any failure of inclusion signals the presence of power. An exclusive education is a corrupted education.

Raewyn W. Connell

#18. For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

John Shadegg

#19. When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

Bob Proctor

#20. The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

Evgeny Morozov

#22. Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

Esther Hicks

#23. They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

Alice Cooper

#24. An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Aravind Adiga

#25. It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.

Samuel Wilson

#26. There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.

Moshe Kasher

#27. When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

Anita Elberse