Quotes About Influence

he hoped his enemies all had reason to fear him and his friends reason to love him...

He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness.

is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Perhaps that is what it is like with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.

Peut-être est-ce là ce à quoi ressemble la compagnie des autres. Peut-être même que des gens qu'on aime et admire profondément peuvent vous pousser à voir le monde sous un jour qu'on aime pas et qu'on n'admire pas non plus.

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.

The dialogue that happened between the ancients and the world was not simply something that happened in their heads; it was something that happened in the actual world. The way the Ancients perceived the world was the way the world truly was. This gave them extraordinary influence and power. Reality was not only capable of taking part in a dialogue - intelligible and articulate - it was also persuadable.

most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them...

Lo que dices importa, y la manera en que lo dices también.

Sin was a powerful temptation, indeed

Because of you, I am me.

Smiles can be deadlier than pistols, if used correctly.

Codependence - Someone who lives someone else's life.

Everything is always changing. There is a cause-and-effect lawfulness that governs all unfolding experience. What I do matters, but I am not in charge. Suffering results from struggling with what is beyond my control. [pp. 27-28]

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind-Tuscarora

Yes, money talked—loudly—and Gideon had tons of it. But he conveyed command and control with subtle actions. I recognized that after living with Nathan's father, my mom's first husband, who'd wielded power like a blunt instrument.

There is no sign of a mathematical pedigree in Nash's ancestry or any indication that mathematics was much in the air at the Nash household.

The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.

Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.

I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

I will be a little god in my small way.

I am a part of all that I have met." To you, whether or not you know, having wandered into the tissue of my life, and out again, you have left a momentary part of you which I will work into something. There is nothing but that it will suffer a sea change into something rich and strange. Through me transmuted.