Quotes About Influence

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

If a child is lucky, there will always be one Mrs. Egorkin who'll play a pivotal role in his or her life.

During my sessions with Dr. Morse, I concluded that somebody had been messing with my head during those early years and they left footprints on my brain. I have spent almost as much time on Seventh-Day Adventists in my analysis as I have on my mother. I am willing to bet that this place was responsible for many of my hang-ups.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Moon-Watcher and his companions had no recollection of what they had seen, after the crystal had ceased to cast its hypnotic spell over their minds and to experiment with their bodies. The next day, as they went out to forage, they passed it with scarcely a second thought; it was now part of the disregarded background of their lives. They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced. Only the very young have a clean slate.

Because each of us is the sum of all we have ever experienced.

On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples: he shrank from diverting its course.

I agree that was terrible—but what could my government do about it?" "A great deal—if it wished. But that would have offended the people who supplied it with oil—and bought its weapons, like the land mines that killed and maimed civilians by the thousands.

It was secret that with greatest determination , was very hard to conceal - for it affected one's attitude, one's voice ,one's total outlook on the universe

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal- and power.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

By the late 50s, the Big Three of science fiction were Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein.

A fin-de-siècle philosopher had once remarked—and been roundly denounced for his pains—that Walter Elias Disney had contributed more to genuine human happiness than all the religious teachers in history. Now, half a century after the artist's death, his dreams were still proliferating across the Florida landscape.

but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

He was seeking no particular place, but a mood, an influence—indeed, a way of life.

Dear Mr Jinx: I'm afraid your idea is not at all original. Stories about writers whose work is always plagiarised even before they can complete it go back at least to H. G. Wells's 'The Anticipator'. About once a week I receive a manuscript beginning:

Se necesita una educación muy mala para que el daño sea permanente.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.