Quotes About Influence

something so small that it would cause passers-by to briefly glance at it and therefore unconsciously decrease their speed, could over time result in the whole motorway coming to a standstill in another place miles away.

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

I don't know,' I said. 'I don't think I know how to be a woman. I believe that no one ever showed me.' 'It isn't a question of showing,' he said. 'It's a question of being permitted.

I told her she would always be able to find a white man to be obliterated by, if that was what she decided she wanted.

The parts of life that are suffocating', Angeliki said, 'are so often the parts that are the projection of our parents' own desires

So much power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

Only tyrants want power for its own sake, and parenthood is the closest most people get to an opportunity for tyranny. Was I a tyrant, wielding shapeless power without authority? What I felt a lot of the time was a sort of stage fright, the way I imagine inexperienced teachers must feel when they stand at the front of the class looking at a sea of expectant faces.

we examine least what has formed us the most, and instead find ourselves driven blindly to re-enact it. Maybe it's only in our injuries, he said, that the future can take root.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. And what is astonishing is how much details it gathers to itself, so that nothing remains untouched by it.

Ele não olhou para mim nem sequer uma vez, pois os momentos em que as pessoas estão demonstrando o próprio poder sobre as outras são aqueles em que têm menos consciência delas.

there was no reason, he said, to trouble myself on that account, since research had proved that parental influence over personality outcomes was virtually nil. A parent's effect lay almost entirely in the quality of his or her nurture and of the home environment, much as a plant will wilt or thrive according to where it is placed and how it is cared for, while its organic structure remains inviolable.

So much of power lies in the ability to see how willing other people are to give it to you.

But for once I thought, let someone else do it! And that is how we lose control over our own destinies.

Later, at the train station before she leaves, my sister says to me: you have to learn to hide what you feel from the children. They will feel what they think you feel. That are only reflections of you. I don't believe that, I say. If they think you're happy, they'll be happy, my sister says. Their feelings are their own, I say.

Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.

My father, a man, advanced male values to us, his daughters. And my mother, a woman, did the same.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Whatever we might wish to believe about ourselves, we are only the result of how others have treated us.

Hindi cinema, now often referred to loosely by the term 'Bollywood', is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated features of contemporary Indian culture. It makes its presence felt beyond the screen throughout wider media, whether the Internet,

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt." -p. 201

Ne možeÅ¡ kontrolirati to tko ce te privuci. A ne možeÅ¡ ni kontrolirati koga tvoje srce želi.«

Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn't mean it's not there, that it doesn't affect you and the choices you make in your life.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

The important thing with Facebook is to remember that it played a role in facilitating Brexit because it inadvertently allowed leave-supporting groups to use harvested data to target key voters.