Quotes About Influence

Everything You Say or Do Is an Intervention that Determines the Future of the Relationship

The point is that no matter what you do or don't do, you are sending signals; you are intervening in the situation and therefore need to be mindful of that reality. Unless you are invisible you cannot help but communicate, so your choice of communication should be based on what kind of intervention you intend.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

There are various art forms we may or may not have talent for, may or may not have time for, and we may or may not be able to express ourselves in, but we ought to consider this fact-that whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are . We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very 'being' can affect the people who live with us or work with us.

whether we choose to be an environment or not, we are. We produce an environment other people have to live in. We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very "being" can affect the people who live with us or work with us. The effect on them is something they cannot avoid. We should have thoughtfulness concerning our responsibility in this area.

One active artist gives courage and incentive, and germinates ideas in others for producing more art.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars—a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict.

For deeds do die, however nobly done,And thoughts of men do as themselves decay,But wise words taught in numbers for to run,Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.