Quotes About Influence

It is necessary, either that the government devours the country, or that the country absorbs the government.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.

rockstar's pet cause to an internationally respected

Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.

...a victim of bad medicine, bad air, bad food, farcical education, a despicable popular culture.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Well, Margaret Thatcher is perhaps the politician I have the greatest admiration for. I am reading her memoirs at the moment.

There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.

If only Nixon could go to China, only Obama can end the self-memorialization obsession that is presidential libraries - by not building such a shrine.

George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do. There was a silence. Nervously. 'Please, may I play the part?' George paused. Then quietly, 'Shurr.' Not even a word. Hardly a syllable. A sound. A small sound above the London traffic. It changed my life.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

When you go out to the world because of the love that someone else has for you, you are all aglow not with your perception of reality but with the love that you have received from someone else; someone else controls the switch and when it is switched off the glow fades away.

Who decides what will finally make its way to your conscious mind from all the material that is pouring in from the world? Three decisive filters: first your attachments, second your beliefs and third your fears.

When we talk about self-worth, are we not talking, really, about how we are reflected in the mirrors of other people's minds?

If you aren't consciously aware, you're vulnerable to either being brainwashed or being influenced by forces within you that you have no awareness of at all.

Tercero: debes comprender que esa «programación» te ha sido impuesta por personas inseguras que, cuando aún eras muy joven e impresionable, te enseñaron, con su comportamiento

Trata de verte ahora reaccionando negativamente y hazte la siguiente pregunta: «¿Tengo yo el control de esta situación o, por el contrario, es la situación la que me domina a mí?».

dominio? Todo lo que tienes que hacer es comprender que hay personas en el mundo que, si estuvieran en tu lugar, no se verían afectadas negativamente por esa persona, sino que controlarían la situación y estarían por encima de ella, no sometidas a ella como tú lo estás.

These people don't bring delinquency with them; they become delinquent when they're faced with certain situations here.

I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

A scientist's work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.