As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
Power is the ability to get things done.
I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.