Quotes About Influence

Vi er treblåsarar, lokka av ting vi ikkje står imot.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

The power of belief alone could change the course of history.

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?...Is evil a force that swims in human blood, struggling to find its way into the heart, or is it an external possibility wanting to be formed?

But know that how you see yourself doesn't define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.

They all seemed to function in it, but to say they controlled it would be wrong...The chaos controlled them.

If a hundred million Americans woke up one morning and learned they had been infected with a virus that would kill them in a matter of weeks, and only one man had the cure and was demanding their cooperation in exchange for that cure . . . This was true power. All they needed was the right weapon. The one virus with its one cure.

Everything each of us does affects the others. None of us lives in a vacuum. We're simply children on a quest to gain the highest forms of wisdom without being compromised in the process. But when one is compromised, the others are compromised. You see that, don't you?

Once created, a power vacuum will be filled, whether by you or some asshole.

Campbell's Law, which says that any metric used to determine social decision-making will become corrupted by people who want to affect those decisions.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Mon but dans la vie est d'être une menace pour le plus grand nombre possible de gens

It's not just great teachers that shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers . . . Being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.

Russ told Harlene to patch Mark through to Clare's if and when he turned up anything. "I'd love to know how you managed to work Reverend Fergusson into this one," Harlene said. "Reverend Fergusson manages to work herself into these things all on her own," he said. "She doesn't need any pushing from me.

What has been seen cannot be unseen

God replies that all it really proves is "that some men will follow any order no matter how asinine as long as it comes from a resonant, well-modulated voice.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

Everything that surrounds us, everything that we see without looking at it, everything that we touch without knowing it, everything that we handle without feeling it, all that we meet without clearly distinguishing it, has a rapid, surprising and inexplicable effect upon us and upon our organs, and through them on our ideas and on our heart itself.

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.