Power Management Quotes

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.

A mature and great power will make measured and limited use of its power.

It's our responsibility as experienced and successful players to manage our powers in order to be able to give 100 per cent in the right moments.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I'm always oscillating between if I should sprinkle more gunpowder or less. But if I put too much gunpowder, there may be holes throughout the silk. If not enough, the power and energy would not be shown.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn't do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can't take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?

As important as having strength is knowing how to use it.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

We must carefully examine regulations that could threaten the state of Arizona's water and power supply.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Eliminate the energy vampires in your house. Connect all of your appliances to power strips and turn them off they're when not in use.

In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.