Quotes About Influence

Sabías que lo que ganan la mayoría de las personas no varía más allá de un 20% de la media de los ingresos de sus amigos más íntimos? Por eso sería mejor que vigilases con quién te relacionas y eligieses con cuidado con quién pasas tu tiempo.

Tu condicionamiento subconsciente determina tu pensamiento; tu pensamiento, tus decisiones, y éstas, tus acciones, que al final determinan tus resultados.

energy is contagious: either you affect people or infect people.

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

Arquivo de riqueza no 7 As pessoas ricas buscam a companhia de indivíduos positivos e bem-sucedidos. As pessoas de mentalidade pobre buscam a companhia de indivíduos negativos e fracassados.

AWARENESS: Write down all the statements you heard about money, wealth, and rich people when you were young. UNDERSTANDING: Write down how you believe these statements have affected your financial life so far. DISASSOCIATION: Can you see that these thoughts represent only what you learned and are not part of your anatomy and not who you are? Can you see that you have a choice in the present moment to be different

Every writer owes something to Holmes. -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929

I came to the conclusion seeing also that the 'influence' of Brahmin and Buddhist thought upon Europe, as in Schopenhauer, Hartmann, and Deussen, had largely been through romantic misunderstanding that my only hope of really penetrating to the heart of that mystery would lie in forgetting how to think and feel as an American or a European: which, for practical as well as sentimental reasons, I did not wish to do.

It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them.

It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest influence on us.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.

She never wanted Harry's relations or Harry's old friends; She never wanted to fit herself to Harry, But only to bring Harry down to her own level.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden.

Not such a compliment: she only wanted To have a tame daughter-in-law with very little money, A housekeeper-companion for her and Harry. Even when he married, she still held on to me

I not a person, in a world not of persons But only of contaminating presences.

violence spreads like a virus by contaminating others. ... Jealousy and suspicion spread like viruses too.

evidently Europeans cannot stop themselves from giving new names to people and places. I guess it must be hard to stop after all those centuries of renaming stuff in the colonies.

As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.