Quotes About Influence

The world will shape you if you let it. To live the life you desire, you must make conscious choices. —John Donahoe, CEO, eBay

Can I come right out and say it? It's time for church leaders to really lead.

Pride is corrosive, and it rubs off. You're going to have a tough time developing Christlike humility and thinking of yourself with sober judgment if your close friends are arrogant, full of pride, and looking down their noses at everyone else.

The longer a person attends church, the fewer evangelistic discussions they engage in with family members and friends. Fewer presentations of the life-changing plan of salvation are given, and fewer invitations to events that attractively present the message of Christ are offered, mostly because Christ-followers have fewer friends outside the faith to whom to offer them.

You are the light of the world.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other people let him.

Just like that, they were gone and the patio was mellow again. As Rich said later, it was like a "gust of wind." MJ was the gust; everyone else was the twigs, leaves, and branches flying around.

How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?

Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.

While he lived, entire worlds weren't enough to contain him. Now six good feet of earth are sufficient.

An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.

Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.

Because you and you alone I can't block out, no matter how hard I try - and believe me, I've tried. I know where you are every second of every day. I know if you're having good or bad dreams while you sleep.

I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse. But I never tried to make anything of it. If I'd heard Louis and Bessie at a Girl Scout jamboree, I'd have loved it just the same.

When I sing it, it affects me so much I get sick. It takes all the strength out of me.

When I asked a Big Dog friend of mine whether it was important to sell up through an organization and obtain consensus along the way, he chuckled, and with a low growl said, "That would be a colossal waste of time—find the 'man,' set up the meeting and do the deal!

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.