Quotes About Influence

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him.

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?

For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.

There is a revisionist theory, one of those depth-psychology distortions or half-truths that crop up like toadstools whenever the emotions get infected by the mind, that says we hate worst those who have done the most for us. According

We can't tell who first had an idea; we can only tell who first had it influentially, who formulated it in a striking way and left it in some form, poem or equation or picture, that others could stumble upon with the shock of recognition. The radical ideas that have been changing our attitudes toward our habitat have been around forever.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

The partaker partakes of that which changes him. The child that touches takes character from the thing, the body, it touches.

I am what is around me.

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

We convince by our presence.

...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became.

Thus it is easy to see how your awareness of your indebtedness to God influences the totality of your life. When you acknowledge that God is good in all that He does, and you affirm His goodness by a life of gratitude, it appreciably influences your ability to get along with others, mitigates your propensity to anger, and fills your life with contentment.