Quotes About Influence

My snobbery made me do it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education

Nature, I confess, has put into man a desire of happiness and an aversion to misery: these indeed are innate practical principles which (as practical principles ought) DO continue constantly to operate and influence all our actions without ceasing: these may be observed in all persons and all ages, steady and universal; but these are INCLINATIONS OF THE APPETITE to good, not impressions of truth on the understanding.

As long as he [William of Orange] lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the streets.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

Emerson said that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

Men are only too ready to be swayed by senseless passion.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

Dozens of the world's best computer scientists began their careers at SAIL. More than half a dozen companies including Foonly, Imagen, Xidex, Vicarm, Valid Logic, Sun Microsystems, Xerox PARC, and Cisco Systems can trace their technology either directly or indirectly to SAIL.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

I really believe that our stories make us who we are. I don't think people are born as empty shells. They already have the makings of a personality and they have intelligence. But from the moment they're born and maybe before that they start accumulating stories and it's those stories that have the biggest effect on them.

I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating.

The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

Ordinary people with commitments can make an extraordinary impact in their world

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.