Miranda July Quotes

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.