Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
In the United States though power corrupts the expectation of power paralyzes.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward as though you have the confidence to move forward eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are you would never think a negative thought.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
To achieve you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.
We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.
After I became a citizen I felt freer to say what I thought about this country both negative and positive. I think I had been consciously and subconsciously biting my tongue in the past.
Americans try to talk about positive family values although the actual state of things is disastrous.
One thing that hasn't changed though is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
Play like you're positive on the victory even though they're leading big now.
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere too.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Frustration although quite painful at times is a very positive and essential part of success.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive constructive optimistic kind.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.