Sylvia Earle Quotes

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

I've always known I've had power.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Power is the ability to get things done.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

The way to have power is to take it.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

The only advantage of power is that you can do more good.

There's this moment when kids realize that they have power and that they can use it.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

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.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.