Quotes About Influence

I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives. My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments. Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

That old black magic has me in its spell.

Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

como es que tienes el derecho a destrozarme la vida, quise preguntarle, pero yo no tengo ningun poder en la tuya?

I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn't met me.

More my son, I found myself thinking. You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.

If women try to get you to read something it's because they fancy you. They want to be in your head. Try to make you think of stuff.

These are the things I learned about being a parent, while not actually being a parent. That whatever you did you would probably be wrong. If you were cruel or dismissive or neglectful, you would leave scars upon your charge.

how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason,

I thought about how you're shaped so much by the people who surround you, and how careful you have to be in choosing them for this exact reason, and then I thought, despite all that, in the end maybe you have to lose them all in order to truly find yourself.

I wondered if she knew that everything she said made the other person feel like an idiot. I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately. I didn't think I could ever manage to make someone feel inferior.

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours. Don

Certi errori... hanno semplicemente conseguenze maggiori rispetto ad altri. Ma non devi permettere che quella notte sia la cifra che ti definisce" (...) "Tu Clark, hai il potere di fare in modo che ciò non accada.

But, like a creeping tide, the outside world insisted steadily on intruding.

Dite alla gente di vestirsi come i loro eroi.

você nunca esteve presente para ele de verdade. não em termos emocionais. você era apenas a ausência a quem ele tentava sempre impressionar.