Ernst Mach Quote

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

• Power
• Reality
• Dreams
• Thinking

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Rene Descartes

• Power
• Thinking

The psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Sigmund Freud

• Reality

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

Henrik Ibsen

• Power

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

• Desire
• Power

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Reality

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Mind
• Power
• Reality

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Minoru Yamasaki

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Tennessee Williams

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

• Reality
• Imagination

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

William Somerset Maugham

• Power
• Imagination

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Cornelia Funke

The life of our generation is now set. We do not have the power to influence the flow of events, and no right to offer advice to the next generation.

Stefan Zweig

• Power

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.

Carlos Castaneda

• Power
• Thinking

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Aristotle

• Power
• Thinking

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

John Keats

• Thinking
• Poetry

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Omar Sharif

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

Ansel Adams

• Love
• Reality
• Spirit

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

Liza Minnelli

• Power

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

• Happiness
• Success