Quotes About Influence

There is something powerful about, yielding power."

What you say to your children will matter, later!

Be vigilant on what is attracting your eyes, for most of our downfalls, regrets and sorrows comes from it.

He who speaks on behalf of people he leads, is a great leader.

The more you spend time with fools, the more you adapt to their mindset and the more you stay close with the wise ones, is the more you empower yourself with wisdom.

We are guided by the strongest and judged by the weakest.

We are living in the era where kings and queens are few.

We don't take the ground with us, but we leave our footprints behind.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

I suppose we are all products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.

He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

All I can say is that every time I'm with him, she's there. She walks through every game I play with him. She whispers behind me every time I talk to him. When we draw, she's there. When we build blocks, she's there. When I scold him, she's there. Whenever I look up, she's there.

Je n'écris plus, je suis écrite. (p.86)