Quotes About Influence

we sometimes have a choice among authorities, and we ought to look at this phenomenon within the experiment. It is possible that when different authorities simultaneously call for opposing lines of action, a person's own values will prevail and determine which authority he follows. Or

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Psycho did fix my image, for better or worse. For years afterward, many young ladies refused to take showers with me.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

parents are the most important influences on children, and that the best way to curb misbehavior is to insist on standards of decency. If we cannot persuade our children that they have the capacity to manage their lives and that the world is worth living in—and then work to create a world in which this is true—medical treatments will expand endlessly but will not be able to help us.

Language shapes consciousness, And the use of language to shape consciousness Is an important branch of magic.

The ability of Greece to generate foreign interventions in its favor separates the Greek experience from that of the other Balkan states.

Când un om sau domn e puternic si tare, atunci poate face pacea cum vrea dar, cand e fara putere, unul mai tare va veni asupra lui si va face cu el ceea ce va voi

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

Psychology of small things rules.

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

We behave morally when we improve the lives of all we can affect.

He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.

I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us...

And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I would try to persuade him to devote himself first to the work of someone greater, interpreting or translating him.

the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be.

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.

Talleyrand define con enojo el cargo de ministro de Policia: "El ministro de Policia es un hombre que se ocupa, en primera línea, de todos los asuntos que le importan, y en segundo lugar, de todos los que no le importan".

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

She did what is the most dangerous thing anyone can do in politics; she discoursed without having the most remote acquaintance with the subject; she amateurishly thrust her fingers into every pie, interfering in matters of the utmost moment; she used her overwhelming influence with the King exclusively on behalf of her favorites.

But you wouldn't believe what a dead finger does to a living hand.

Y es que en la Tierra, el ejemplo es la ligazón más fuerte entre los hombres; toda acción despierta en los demás la voluntad de actuar con rectitud, de salir del sopor de la somnolencia y de llenar las horas de actividad.

NI PARÍS, NI NUEVA YORK, sino Viena era el centro del mundo en los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX. Fue en la ciudad del Danubio donde se fraguaron, más que en ningún otro lugar, muchos de los esplendores y los horrores que estaban aún por llegar y que, a la postre, acabarían rotulando nuestro mundo actual y nuestras propias vidas.