Katie Kitamura Quotes

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Attribution is power.

Gotta watch out for directors.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

You run the party or the party runs you.