Quotes About Influence

It could take a while — perhaps centuries. But the landscape would drip into their souls eventually. The English did not become Norman; the Normans became English.

The pull of an immoral world outside our homes is as strong as the force that sucks the soft, white stuff into the form. Neutrality on our part as parents will result in failure. Without our intentional effort to defy it, our kids will have no chance but to be thoroughly drawn into those things that we fear most.

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

For the first time, he began calling himself Barack. Partly because a beautiful, older girl told him it was a great name. But also because he now felt that it was a great name, too, a name that belonged to him.

People with low levels of emotional maturity or differentiation attract other people with low maturity levels, and people with higher levels attract higher level people.

If a boy can't have a good teacher, give him a psychological cripple or an exotic failure to deal with; don't just give him a bad, dull teacher. This is where the private schools score over state-run schools; they can accommodate a few cultured madmen on the staff without having to offer explanations.

They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.

It was an awful reminder of how much business interests have taken over medicine. Especially with private equity trying to eke out every last penny of compensation

What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.

But if I could have met Tim Deakin when he was thirteen or fourteen,' Ewing said, accentuating each word with his finger, 'I am convinced that he would still be with me, and I'm convinced that we'd both be happy.

When King Edward's charm and influence defused six centuries of Anglo-French rivalry and led to the signing of the Entente Cordiale in 1904, the Kaiser saw this as yet another cunning British attempt to unite Europe against Germany.

the credit for developing the basic idea into what became the first tank must go to Winston Churchill

The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.

To Be a Great Leader, First Become a Great Person.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.

Son, when you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.

ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind.

the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.

the thoughts you think and the actions you take in the first ten minutes after you wake up have a very marked effect on the rest of your day.

We all need to lead where we are planted and shine where we now find ourselves.

One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.