342 quotes found
“Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking a...”
“I'm a lion in a strange land.”
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...”
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what th...”
“Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you gi...”
“You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.”
“...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...”
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...”
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....”
“I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!”
“A good general rule is that one should seek to be loved by one’s peers—one’s spouse and one’s friends are the best examples—but beyond that, one should first seek to be respected. Seeking to be lov...”
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language ...”
“...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...”
“...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...”
“Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.”
“My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does not seem to do very much in order not to be disappointed it is because there is not ...”
“Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.”
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving m...”
“If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch”
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct...”
