William Powers Quotes

Enjoy the top 10 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by William Powers.

“By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.”
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“In a multi-tasking world where pure focus is harder and harder to come by, paper's seclusion from the Web is an emerging strength. There's nothing like holding a sheaf of beautifully designed pages in your hands. The whole world slows down, and your mind with it.”

— William Powers

“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things. We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”

— William Powers

“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”

— William Powers

“That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.”

— William Powers

By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.

— William Powers

Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.

— William Powers

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

— William Powers

“Rather than allowing external forces to define how we feel inside, each of us can be our own thermostat.”

— William Powers

“As hot as the blood is the missing of her. God, how I want her little hand in mine. Only another parent can fully get this. It's completely different from separation from a parent or lover. The clay in me wants to touch that part of myself - my blood flowing through another heart - touch the memories of her birth. The first time I held her, she was the length of my forearm.”

— William Powers

“When a crowd adopts a point of view en masse, all critical thinking stops.”

— William Powers