Quotes About Influence

The real differences between Lisa's and Kara's rates of aging lie in the complex interactions between genes, social relationships and environments, lifestyles, those twists of fate, and especially how one responds to the twists of fate. You're born with a particular set of genes, but the way you live can influence how your genes express themselves. In some cases, lifestyle factors can turn genes on or shut them off.

Nuestros genes son como el hardware de una computadora, no podemos cambiarlos. Los telómeros son parte del epigenoma, y éste es como el software, necesita programación. Nosotros somos los programadores. Hasta cierto punto, controlamos las señales químicas que hacen los cambios. Nuestros telómeros son sensibles, escuchan, nivelan y calibran las circunstancias actuales en el mundo. Juntos podemos mejorar el código de programación.

The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in one's acceptance of it. Solitude is not the solution, one feels followed. Choice - choice of those who are to surround one, choice of those most likely to see you rightly - is the only escape.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

I am much too influenced by people's manner towards me—especially Anna's I suppose. Directly people attack me, I think they are right, and hate myself, and then I hate them—the more I like them this is so.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.

The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.

smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres.

The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.

Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

If you ask me, people out of touch with reality aren't nearly as dangerous as lawyers like him who manipulate it.

I ragazzi apprendono come comportarsi dalle persone con cui vivono. [...]

Bien sea que estudies a Dale Carnegie o a Napoleon Hill o a otros oradores más modernos, como Stephen Covey, en ellos encontrarás fórmulas para triunfar.

Mary nevertheless marvelled at another otherwise strong man being reduced by a pretty woman. What was there about the male character that could produce great strength of personality, yet equally great weakness when it came to females?

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

What an ephemeral thing human will is, to be manipulated by a couple of drops of hormones!

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

Are you quite sure that you want to hear it?" he asked. "Sometimes, Maria, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it.

Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself.