Barack Obama Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Impact Quotes

One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

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Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!

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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

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It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

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That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.

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We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

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This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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