Quotes About Influence

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears, that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

Power proves the man.

To avoid this "psychic contamination," stay focused and committed to your own priorities and goals. The more defined your aims are, the more likely you will avoid the riffraff and not wander into energy that doesn't belong to you, serve you, or possibly derail you. The stronger your intentions and priorities, the better your intuitive GPS, as well as your energetic boundaries, will become, and the more insulated you'll be from any unwanted influences.

Just as people can be toxic or have bad vibes, so can places.

My spiritual teachers taught me the importance and power of words early in my apprenticeship. I learned that we are all Divine Beings, co-creators with the Universe, and that our life is built through our words. Nothing we say is ever lost or impotent—in fact, each utterance is powerful beyond belief and commands the Universe to obey. As far as the Universe is concerned, what we say is law because the Universe takes everything we say as truth and strives to make it so.

All words are potent, but words spoken with love are positively irresistible. They're as powerful as magic spells and draw the world to your front door.

If you are in the habit of absorbing someone else's energy, pay closer attention to your vibes and then ask yourself if they are, in fact, your vibes. The depression or anxiety you're feeling may not really be your own; it may be the result of absorbing too much of what's around you.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.

It's amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words "organic," "authentic," and "Gwyneth Paltrow.

carries hope round with him like an aura, and whenever I touch him a little bit of it filters into me.

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.

Mum's like one of those dressage riders on TV. She changes her voice an iota and we all obey her instantly, like trained Olympic horses.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

What you cannot enforce, do not command!

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

No quieras imponer tu voluntad en todo. Pues incluso aquello donde la impusiste no te ha acompañado toda tu vida.

Money! Nothing worse in our lives, so current, rampant, so corrupting. Money—you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime—money!

I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.