Quotes About Influence

British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to

Don't do it," the patient said. "Even if she wants it, don't let her do it. I used to be a model. You don't want your kid to be a model.

When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, 'This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.' 'Wow!' I said, duly impressed. 'No, No,' said Cooke, 'It goes further than that. Bertrand Russell knew Robert Browning. Bertrand Russell's aunt danced with Napoleon. That's how close we all are to history. Just a few handshakes away. Never forget that.

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

You cannot control others if you cannot control yourself. Those who most understand their own limitations have the fewest.

There is such a thing as the power of suggestion, however. One human mind is capable of being hypnotised or persuaded by another. We have faith, we have Hitler, we have advertising.

This is so similar to the story of Apollo and Hyacinthus that you wonder if some bard somewhere got drunk or confused.

I would recommend to anyone Professor Alan Bullock's definitive Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Daniel Goldhagen's brilliant Hitler's Willing Executioners as well as the above mentioned Those Were the Days.

Some are born with a beauty that seems to turn people mad. Fortunately there are very few of us like that, but our power can be unsettling and even eruptive.

As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.

I think that when we die we return to dust. But there's a sense in which we live on, in our influence, and in our genes that we pass on to our children. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful.

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.

If you know how something works, you can control it.

A butterfly flapping its wings in Australia can cause rain in Central Park, New York.

Noi cre?m istoria prin observa?iile noastre, iar nu istoria ne creeaz? pe noi.

If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.

he was a man of politics and a man of action.

The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.