Quotes About Influence

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life"

So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Are the people in your life inspiring you or tiring you?

One cannot hold power and not use it.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do the face, so Im bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.