Quotes About Influence

All of us, when we travel, look at the places we go, the things we see, through different eyes. And how we see them is shaped by our previous lives, the books we've read, the films we've seen, the baggage we carry.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

When power, conceived in honor, by noble men, and nurtured by freedom, ceases to be shackled by (well meaning?) socialist ideologues, naïve pacifists, and fatuous political correctness, the power conceived by evil men, who love power for its own sake, will cease to find unfettered influence.

Thus another émigré, the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, wrote, "If, despite everything, I should survive, then I owe it to Goethe.

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.

in those days children were rather out of fashion.

Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.

He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint, and through influence he had recently got a job in a museum. His father was a retired civil servant who lived in Essex, where he and his wife kept a chicken farm.

Moreland could never get used to the fact that most people—in this particular case, Templer—lead lives in which the arts play no part whatsoever.

You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.

Know that it's your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Money is a good servant but a bad master. —SIR FRANCIS BACON

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.