I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.Alexander the Great
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. Judy Blume
I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life. Aimee Mullins
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.Napoleon Bonaparte
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.Socrates
I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.Michael Azerrad
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. Michael Eric Dyson
I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States. Jim Courier
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.Stephen Hawking
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. plutarch
I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play. Angela Ruggiero
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. Dan Brown
I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused. Terry Bradshaw
I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important. Mark Sanchez
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way. Jonathan Ames
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind. Shaun Alexander
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. Ralph Ellison