Quotes About Influence

Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem.

C'è qualcosa di assoluto e di imprendibile in certi esseri, sembra una lontananza dal mondo, dai vivi, ma sembra anche il segno di chi subisce un potere che non conosciamo.

The devil made me do it!

Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control of the means of communication is the most effective and most important.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

You cannot always control your thought but you can control your word, and eventually the word impresses the subconscious and wins out.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate.

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

Think of how we, as adults, respond to a person who builds on our strengths. If somebody very important to us thinks we're the greatest thing since remote controls, we will perform like gangbusters for that person. But if that important person thinks we're the scum of the earth, we will probably never prove him or her wrong.

and spending so little time with their kids. Rather than holding their children accountable for their actions, they simply let them run free, believing that "quality" time will make up for the lack of "quantity" of time they spend with their children and that responsibility will eventually rub off on the children during the right "quality" moments.

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord.

Therefore, it is necessary to guard our heart and our external senses from indecent spectacles: each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

each of us becomes what we see, what we listen to, and what we read.

What type of influence do books and especially horror films have on a spiritual life? A negative one.

This line of reasoning brings us to a challenging question: If people are as incapable, as immoral, and as ignorant as the politicians indicate, then why is the right of these same people to vote defended with such passionate insistence?

Es esta una época en la que, bajo la influencia de tales enseñanzas, que son el fondo de la educación clásica, cada uno ha querido situarse fuera y por encima de la humanidad, para arreglarla, organizarla e instituirla a su gusto.

La Ley se ha pervertido bajo la influencia de dos causas bien diferentes: el egoísmo falto de inteligencia y la falsa filantropía.

The academy is, perhaps unsurprisingly, full of people who think that they are smart enough to run the lives of others. They are not. Hence the subtitle of this volume: "What Your Professors Won't Tell You.

Thus men, according to Bossuet, derive nothing from themselves; patriotism, wealth, inventions, husbandry, science—all come to them by the operation of the laws, or by kings. All they have to do is to be passive.

No conviction makes so lasting an impression on the mind as that which it works out for itself.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.

But the law is made, generally, by one man, or by one class of men. And as law cannot exist without the sanction and the support of a preponderating force, it must finally place this force in the hands of those who legislate. This