Quotes About Influence

I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I sucked the sugar off and cheerfully ran off, spitting out the message undigested. (Despite going to church several times every Sunday for my who childhood, I never figured out Aslan was Jesus until told later.)

She has read LOTR, and I don't know if she read it identifying with all of the evil people and hoping the good ones wouldn't resist their temptations, but I know she has read it because the first time I read it, it was her copy. This proves that just reading it isn't enough. After all, the devil can quote scripture.)

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

And it was the landscape that formed us, that made us who we were as we grew in it, that affected everything.

Fu lì che mi resi conto di come un gruppo di uomini ha bisogno di un capo completo. Il comandante è necessario per alleviare gli afflitti, per salvare la mente della gente da preoccupazioni sproporzionate. Non conoscevo, oggi chi sa se la conosco, la legge del nessun mezzotermine. Senza azione, avrei potuto consumare lì tutta la mia vita, tra il sì e il no.

Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I asked him what made us different, and he said it was simple, that I thought I could change things, and he knew that no one could.

Each time she told me, 'Hon, leaving you with Addie was the best thing I could have done for you. You need constants in your life.' She had a different hair color each time she said it.

Lo que pase depende exclusivamente de ti. Eres tú quien tiene la capacidad de decidir qué quieres cambiar de tu vida

You don't have to be famous of rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person

Alexis de Tocqueville, observing that "there was hardly a political question in the United States that did not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."1

How small we are in the universe but, even so, how one small voice can make a difference.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765

The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.

The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your cousin Karen?" Jo's internal Karen was the perfect mimic of her cousin, and fulfilled Nancy's demand that the child be neat and organized.

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

In 1970, for example, Walmart was barely a blip on anyone's radar. Today, as the world's most powerful buyer, it is the dominant force in industry after industry. In what must be one of the most honest job titles I've ever seen, the company's chief buyer is called "vice president for international purchase leverage.

When you assess buyer power, the channels through which products are delivered can be as important as the end users. This is especially true when the channel influences the purchase decisions of the end-user customers. Investment advisors, for example, have enormous power, and the high margins that accompany that power. The emergence of powerful retailers like Home Depot and Lowe's has put enormous pressure on the makers of home improvement products.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

We have the best congressmen that money can buy.

Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.