Quotes About Power Relationships

#1. This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

Earl Browder

#2. Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.

Peter Drucker

#3. Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Barton Gellman

#4. Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships ...

Margaret Atwood

#5. How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Allan Sekula

#6. High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#7. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.

Timothy Keller

#8. In a relationship there is the information that we need and do not ask for, and the information we have but choose to ignore.

Debra L. Kaplan

#9. Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

Jane Fonda

#10. You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.

James Hunter

#11. Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.

Linda Alfiori

#12. In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

Karen Abbott

#13. Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems.

Brian Fikkert

#14. What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power.

Candace Bushnell

#15. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Douglas McGregor

#16. Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Alvin Plantinga

#17. Sometimes it's the harder relationships, the complicated ones you have to fight and claw for that have staying power. May give you gray hair and bruises,but,you know.

Sharla Lovelace

#18. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Rob Bell

#19. Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

Dean Ornish

#20. Take back your power! I wish you the wisdom to realize that the problem isn't that they keep lying to you; it's that you keep believing them.

Steve Maraboli

#21. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

Jeffrey Kluger

#22. The heart is the door to our inner woman. The heart is the door to our inner world. The power chakra relates to the inner man. The power chakra relates to the outer world. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, the inner woman is the center of our consciousness.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#23. I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Rebecca West

#24. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

Linda Castillo

#25. Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Robin S. Sharma

#26. The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Joyce Meyer

#27. Your thoughts and intentions have a mirroring power, make sure they are always kind and loving.

Linda Alfiori

#28. Why?
Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

Glenn Beck

#29. With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#30. Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

Frederick Lenz

#31. If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

Frederick Lenz

#32. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.

Stormie O'martian

#33. Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.

Joseph A. Micucci

#34. He realized with sudden clarity that the power axis in a conflict shifted once your adversary had heard you plead for divine intervention while her hands and mouth and body brought you to screaming climax on her kitchen table.

Jane Rainwater

#35. Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you happy or miserable

Shane Eric Mathias

#36. Sexual power encompasses the power of seduction and the power of pursuit.

Elona Washington

#37. Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

Marina And The Diamonds

#38. When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

Warren Farrell

#39. The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

Carla L. Rueckert

#40. Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Tom Peters

#41. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Stormie O'martian

#42. It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources.

Nadje Al-Ali

#43. I had a dream about you last night. I could fly. I was going to use this power to impress you, but you were too heavy to carry, so I won you over with my personality instead

Michael Summers

#44. If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

Robert Farrar Capon

#45. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

Lita Ford

#46. A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

Craig Newmark

#47. I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.

Brandon Routh

#48. Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Henri Nouwen

#49. Men have the illusion of power; women have the power of illusion.

Tayo Emmanuel

#50. Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

Stormie O'martian

#51. I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.

Rebecca Timberlake

#52. Break ups aren't fair. Why does only one person have power? We both agreed to start dating. Why do you get to make the decision to end it? Shouldn't it be a joint decision too?
Relationships aren't a democracy. Not everyone gets an equal vote.

Alyssa Ivy Rose

#53. If one assumes, as I do, that battery is caused by the belief permeating this culture that hierarchical rule and coercive authority are natural, then all our relationships tend to be based on power and domination, and thus all forms of battery are linked.

Bell Hooks

#54. Through all the challenges life may throw at us; let's not forget that we are soul mates ... companions ... individuals ... divinely fused together by the immeasurable power of love ... and that we can get through it all ... as one.

Steve Maraboli

#55. There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

Arundhati Roy

#56. While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Debbie Macomber

#57. In any relationship, the person who cares the least is the one with the most power.

Susan Palwick

#58. When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.

Solange Nicole

#59. In sexual relations, a connection between solar plexus chakras indicates shared power in the relationship.

Brownell Landrum

#60. There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

Mike Mason

#61. Asking for help with shame says:
You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says:
I have the power over you.
But asking for help with gratitude says:
We have the power to help each other.

Amanda Palmer

#62. Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are called weakness or power, wealth or poverty, human establishments appear at first glance to be based on piles of shifting sand.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#63. Hubris, n.
Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

David Levithan

#64. Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.

Julieanne O'Connor

#65. No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

Cheryl Strayed

#66. There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Susan Shaw

#67. Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

John Stoker

#68. Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has!

Manasa Rao

#69. Distance matters only when you fail to cover it through your mind

Munia Khan

#70. Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

Christopher Reeve

#71. Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

Deborah Eisenberg

#72. Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.

Wm. Paul Young

#73. Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

Robert Greene

#74. We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations.

Betsy L. Stone

#75. The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.

Steve Maraboli

#76. I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

Steve Maraboli

#77. We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

Jennifer Hudson

#78. When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Leslie Vernick

#79. Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

Anuj

#80. I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

Amanda Bouchet

#81. She was falling apart beneath my hands, and I was falling apart beneath her. My power was her power, and together, we sent each other soaring.

Rachael Wade

#82. Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Stormie O'martian

#83. You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

Shannon L. Alder

#84. [Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

A.J. Darkholme

#85. Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

Neil Strauss

#86. He offered her power, money, status ...
a giant prison, all in exchange
for only ... her soul.

Coco J. Ginger

#87. Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Camille Paglia

#88. I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

Tom Peters

#89. I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Norah Vincent

#90. Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus' death and resurrection to put all things in right relationship again.

Brian Fikkert

#91. In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#92. Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#93. The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

Dean Ornish

#94. Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#95. Harassment is about power
the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Michael Crichton

#96. Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

Ann Cotton

#97. Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#98. The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Bell Hooks

#99. When you fall in love with life, every limitation disappears. You break the limitations on money, health, happiness, and the limits of joy in your relationships.

Fall in love with life, unleash the power within you, and you will become unlimited and invincible!

Rhonda Byrne

#100. How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

Dee Remy