Quotes About Power

You heard me, I would take the oil.

Leverage: don't make deals without it.

In short, a premise is any single image, moment, feeling, or belief that has enough power and personal meaning for the author to set her story on fire, and propel it like a rocket for hundreds of pages.

Symbols are not only objects; they can be gestures, places, and words. Story can be symbolic all on its own, as in allegory. Considering the power of this oldest of literary devices

The next biggest reason folks buy fiction is that it has been personally recommended to them by a friend, family member or bookstore employee. That process is called word of mouth. Savvy publishers understand its power and try to facilitate its effect with advance reading copies (ARCs), samplers, first chapters circulated by e-mail, Web sites and the like.

What attracts us doesn't always connect us. I can't tell you how many friends I have who have been taken in by somebody sexy or powerful or charming but soon after find themselves feeling alone in the relationship. It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.

asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

The whole experience makes me wonder if the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn't wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are, an ever-changing being that is becoming and will never arrive, but has opinions about what is seen along the journey.

His weakness was a thirst for glory but none for power.

If we want our customers' ears to perk up when we talk about our products and services, we should position those products and services as weapons they can use to defeat a villain. And the villain should be dastardly.

Pain can serve a purpose if we cause it to. Again, while we do not have power over all that happens in the world, we do have power over our perspective. We can choose to take unfair and undue pain and cause it to serve our own story so that we become better. So that we transform.

The most powerful tool any of us can use to magically open doors is a one-liner.

The One-two Punch of Empathy and Authority

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script. But it doesn't work. Controlling people are the loneliest people in the world.

Rolex, Mercedes, Louis Vuitton y otras marcas de lujo, en realidad, venden algo más que coches y relojes: venden la identidad asociada al poder, el prestigio y el refinamiento.

To understand the power of a story gap is to understand what compels a human brain toward a desire.

Commonality, whether taste in music or shared values, is a powerful marketing tool.

He seemed to possess superhuman ability, dispersing many thousands in the square from time to time with a wave of his hand.

Story is atomic. It is perpetual energy and can power a city. Story is the one thing that can hold a human being's attention for hours.

There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks.

The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

Here's something I heard recently: men move toward whatever makes them feel competent. As soon as I heard that I knew it was true. Every man I know migrates toward something that makes him feel powerful and in control.

When we don't ask clearly for the sale, the customer senses weakness.