Potency Quotes

• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Capacity, Faculty, Accomplish

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• Si la palabra tiene la potencia de revivir y hacernos libres, también tiene el poder de atar, aprisionar y destruir.

  Ralph Ellison

  Political, Politics, Revive

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• Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fashion, Art, Judging

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• El arte de la publicidad es un arte negro, pero ha llegado para quedarse y cada año aumenta su potencia.

  Thomas Paine

  Arte, Años, Negro

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• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Lying, Power

  "The Art of Loving".

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• Porque los libros no son cosas absolutamente muertas, sino que contienen una potencia de vida en ellos para ser tan activos como lo era el alma cuya progenie son; es más, conservan como en un frasco la más pura eficacia y extracción de aquel intelecto vivo que los engendró.

  John Milton

  Vida, Libro, Alma

  Areopagitica" (1644) p. 4

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• Como comandante de alto rango en Vietnam, era consciente de la fuerza de la opinión pública, y me preocupaba.

  William Westmoreland

  Senior, Public Opinion, Vietnam

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• El arte de la publicidad es un arte negro.

  Learned Hand

  Arte, Negro, Publicidad

  Learned Hand (1959). "El espíritu de la libertad: Papers and Addresses"

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• In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Expression, Generosity

  Erich Fromm (2013). "El arte de amar", p.29, Open Road Media.

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• Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspiración, motivación, mentira

  Erich Fromm (2013). "El arte de amar", p.29, Open Road Media.

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• El caballo, ¡el caballo! El símbolo de la potencia y el poder del movimiento, de la acción.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Inspiration, Movement

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). "Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation", p. 102, Cambridge University Press.

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• If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

  George Crumb

  Art, Looks, Elements

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• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Half, Poet, Phenomenon

  Yehudi Menuhin (1986). "Clase de vida: pensamientos, ejercicios, reflexiones de un violinista itinerante", Vintage

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• A veces somos demonios para nosotros mismos Cuando tentamos la fragilidad de nuestros poderes, Presumiendo de su potencia cambiante.

  William Shakespeare

  Evil, Temptation, Sometimes

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Works. The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions: With Introductions, Notes Original and Selected, and a Life of the Poet”, p.472

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• El uso casi puede cambiar el sello de la naturaleza.

  William Shakespeare

  Use, Habit, Easiness

  William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

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• Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Essence, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Giving is the highest expression of potency.

  Erich Fromm

  Expression, Giving, Charity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• El poder es la facultad o la capacidad de actuar, la fuerza y la potencia para realizar algo. Es la energía vital para hacer elecciones y tomar decisiones. También incluye la capacidad de superar hábitos profundamente arraigados y cultivar otros más elevados y eficaces.

  Stephen Covey

  Power, Choices, Decision

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

  Kenny Smith

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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• Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, World, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

  Mooji

  Bello, Espiritual, Sabiduría

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• No hay ninguna diferencia esencial entre clavar alfileres en una imagen de cera de un enemigo y quemar velas delante de una imagen de cera de la Virgen. Se puede pensar que ambas prácticas son supersticiones burdas, pero difícilmente se puede pensar que una es real y potente y negar realidad y potencia a la otra.

  Dion Fortune

  Real, Thinking, Practice

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.13, Dion Fortune

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• The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Reality, Men

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• I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

  Patrick Gale

  Memories, Worry, Unhappy

  Patrick Gale (2010). “Rough Music”, p.359, Ballantine Books

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