Quotes About Influence

Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa.

god has shown me that conducting our lives to look like The Untouchables --looking like we have it all together, like we are perfect--does not leave straight path for others to follow.

I'm trying to fuck my kids up just enough so they'll want to get a job.

How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn—and not from his Master. From Palpatine.

Big Brother is catching.

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

I'd hardly say I was common; after all, I fleeced you out of £110,000, and even so, all I have to do is smile, and you still come straight to heel, just as you did today. We are neither of us common, my lord.

You weren't always born to the right parents. And parents didn't necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.

Especially since my mother says Grandma is too much of an influence on me.

So many adults are exhausting themselves worrying about other people corrupting their children with books, they're turning kids off to reading instead of turning them on.

My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short.

factors that distance us from the ancient philosophical writers. One is the literal distance of time and the loss of much evidence. Another is the influence of other factors, which we should be aware of, which make our concern with the ancients a selective and changeable one, so that a text like Plato's Republic is read very differently at different times.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

In this moment the U.S. state has made family values a means of policing the exercise largely (but not solely) of female desire, as well as a way to establish the state's moral right to influence and even direct the private sphere.

Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent."

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

This limitless reservoir of wisdom and power is open to you; you can draw upon it as you will, according to your needs. You can make yourself what you desire to be; you can do what you wish to do; you can have what you want.

You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves.

at times expressing his conviction that literature and music were being absorbed by television, which was turning people into voyeurs.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.