Quotes About Influence

Maybe a mouse gets to thinking pretty early on how the whole world is run by these enormous feet. Well, from where I sit, I figure the world is run by one thing and this one thing only. Panic with a dog-face, devil-face, hag-face, whore-face, panic in capital letters with no face at all—it's the same Johnny Panic, awake or asleep.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chockfull of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.

I thought I only need tell him what I wanted to, and that I could control the picture he had of me by hiding this and revealing that, all the while he thought he was so smart.

and they all wanted to adopt me in some way, and, for the price of their care and influence, have me resemble them.

Também lembrei de Buddy Williard dizendo com uma voz sinistra e sabichona que depois que tivéssemos filhos eu me sentiria diferente e não mais teria vontade de escrever poemas. E me ocorreu que talvez fosse verdade aquela história de que casar e ter filhos era como passar por uma lavagem cerebral, e que depois eu que você ficava inerte feito um escravo num pequeno estado totalitário.

Fixed stars govern a life

The eyes and the faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

It was only after seeing Irwin's study that I decided to seduce him.

Buddy's father was a teacher, and I think Buddy could have been a teacher as well, he was always trying to explain things to me and introduce me to new knowledge.

I am terrified even to have known him, he makes all others mere puny fragments.

whole emphasis has swung again, to a realization that if I enter this academic, critical world, I'll spend all my time reading and reading, and that I need a healthy overturning of the apple-cart, almost a refusal to read beyond a point, and to read more of what influences my writing, rather

she) ends up steering New York like her own private car.

No poet, no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

The second element of change is understanding. By understanding where your "way of thinking" originates, you can recognize that it has to come from outside you.

either you control money, or it will control you. To control money, you must manage it.

When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

My inner world creates my outer world." Now touch your head and say… "I have a millionaire mind.

Buckminster Fuller, um dos maiores inventores e filósofos da nossa época, disse: "O propósito da nossa vida é acrescentar valor à vida das pessoas desta geração e das gerações seguintes.

DECLARATION: "My inner world creates my outer world." Now touch your head and say… "I have a millionaire mind.

Verbal programming: What did you hear when you were young? Modeling: What did you see when you were young? Specific incidents: What did you experience when you were young?

Would you hug and hold a person you knew had a severe case of the measles? Most people would say, "No way, I don't want to catch the measles." Well, I believe negative thinking is like having measles of the mind. Instead of itching, you get bitching; instead of scratching, you get bashing; instead of irritation, you get frustration. Now, do you really want to be close to people like that?