Quotes About Influence

Things have made you what you are. What you are will make you what you will become.

To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer.

Do you think a city can control the way the people live inside it? I mean, just the geography, the way the streets are laid out, the way the buildings are placed?

Things have made you what you are," she recited. "What you are will make you what you will become.

The history of science fiction tends to be the history of its editors.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up (p.10).

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

The more aware you are of yourself, the less outside influences can affect you. The less aware you are of yourself and the less attention you consciously pay to who you are, the more energy can affect you.

You might imagine your thoughts as magnets. These magnets go out into the world and attract the substances that match them; they duplicate themselves in form. Everything around you was a thought in someone's mind before it existed in your reality. Cars, roads, homes, buildings, and cities all existed as thoughts before they became realities.

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

Having a symbol to represent something is a very powerful way to draw it to you. Symbols work on a deeper level of consciousness than words and bypass belief systems.

We don't accomplish anything in the world alone and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry off one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that create something.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

Our energy is contagious, take care that you are radiating the high frequency, you want to come back to you.

People can only pull you in one direction at a time.

We think legacy is like a balloon being inflated and so we expect to see the results. Truthfully, legacy is more like the air going into the balloon, whether we witness the outcome or not, lives are being touched.