Paraphrased variant: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Harvard address (2008)
“The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
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American writer 1941Related quotes
“The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.”
Quoted in Salazar: biographical study - page 383; of Franco Nogueira - Published by Atlantis Publishing, 1977
“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.”
Source: Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
Context: It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
“We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.”
Source: The Little Man in The Tower
Karl. E. Weick, in: Barry M. Staw, Gerald R. Salancik (eds.) New directions in organizational behavior, St. Clair Press, 1977, p. 273
1970s