Quotes About Influence

Besides these people there are many directors I revere as teachers: Shimazu Yasujir? (1897–1945), Yamanaka Sadao (1909–1938), Mizoguchi Kenji, Ozu Yasujir? and Naruse Mikio. When I think about these people, I want to raise my voice in that old song: "… thanks for our teacher's kindness, we have honored and revered.…" But none of them can hear me now.

Of course, compared to these two illustrious masters, Renoir and Ford, I am no more than a little chick.

But I prefer to think of my brother as a negative strip of film that led to my own development as a positive image.

While in H?nay?na Buddhism the Buddha appears and disappears in the universe, in Mah?y?na thought the Buddha is the universe itself, eternal existence. This idea was probably influenced by the notion of Brahm?, Brahmanism's fundamental principle of the universe, and by Hinduism's concept of the gods Vi??u and ?iva.

Of equal importance to the idea of transmigration is the concept of karma. Karma (also karman ) means "action," and it consists of both action and its power of influence. "Action" does not refer just to bodily movements, but also includes the actions of speech and mind. An action's power of influence is not confined to this life but extends to future lives as well.

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.

Don't play semantic games with the prospect. Advertising is not a debate. It's a seduction.

Mind-changing is the road to advertising disaster.

Success in business inflates the egos of top management.

The easy way to get into a person's mind is to be first.

What should a brand leader advertise? Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

72 Days is now an official unit of time known as a Kardash.

In her experience, prefacing a statement with "To be honest" or "To tell you the truth" is a sure sign you're telling someone else what to believe—such as what was "good" for her, in this instance.

nous n'avons aucune puissance sur les passions tant que nous n'en connaissons pas les vraies causes

When we repress our desires, they do not disappear but stay beneath the surface and continue to exert their influence. Prohibition arouses desire and suggests stratagems for satisfying it.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.