Quotes About Influence

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Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" repeated Winston obediently.

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.

referring to Russian commissars as "half-gramophones, half-gangsters.

Ä°yi ya da kötü, bu sizin, siz ona aitsiniz ve üstünüzde b?rakt??? izlerden hayat?n?z boyunca kurtulamayacaks?n?z.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.

And he began to understand how power worked in the White House. People didn't have it—they made it. If you wanted to be included in a meeting, you didn't wait for an invitation; you just showed up. He told Mikva, "If you don't use your power, you won't have any power.

If ever there had been a place to begin a religion, it was Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.

The Golden Bough was popular with both scholars and laymen, and it dramatically influenced the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung—Frazer's depiction of tales of myth and romance as echoes of ancient rituals chimed with Jung's description of archetypes that exist within the collective unconscious—as

We lost Klimmt, Schiele and Moll

A bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom; if thou hadst thy choice, which wouldst thou choose?

Babylon had fallen, never to rise again, but to it civilization owes much.

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les idées. (It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.)

Tus cartas caen sobre mí como una lluvia que empapa la tierra y hace crecer de golpe lo que estaba en germen.

Tout concourt à I'histoire, tout est I'histoire, meme les romans qui semblent ne se rattacher en rien aux situations politiques qui les voient eclore.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Why sad? Don't be sad. If sad, will make everyone sad.

One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters his/her trajectory, opens up his/her heart + mind.

I could see that, over the years, my babies would slowly transform into selfish-dick babies, then selfish-dick toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults, with me all that time skulking around like some unclean suspect uncle.

I teach "The Singers" to suggest to my students how little choice we have about what kind of writer we'll turn out to be.

By Fate, by Destiny, said the Vermonter. By the fact that time runs in only one direction, and we are borne along by it, influenced precisely as we are, to do just the things that we do, the bass lisper said.

How could we have been otherwise? Or, being that way, have done otherwise? We were that way, at that time, and had been led to that place, not by any innate evil in ourselves, but by the state of our cognition and our experience up until that moment.

NONFICTION The Braindead Megaphone Congratulations

In your life, there have been High Kindness periods and Low Kindness periods, and you know what inclined you toward the former and away from the latter.