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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Impact Quotes
  • We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Distance Quotes
  • Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Agency Quotes
  • We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Money Quotes , Powerful Quotes
  • The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Differences Quotes