Quotes About Influence

Of all the men I have ever known, Eric Liddell was the one in whose character and life the Spirit of Jesus Christ was pre-eminently manifested." And all of us who were privileged to know him with any intimacy echo this judgement. 'What was the secret of his consecrated life and far-reaching influence? Absolute surrender to God's will as revealed in Jesus Christ.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

For most people, most of the time, the media are little more than a background hum. . .

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

I suppose partially because of the success of the early movies and things like that, I began to realize, that children do look up to you in some way, and there is a responsibility for how you behave with them. I know that it's important to make them feel very valuable, not to talk down to them.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Concering the power of the written word

If one wanted to assess whether a generation of homeschoolers raised on Christian Reconstruction have any influence, the Georgia State Republican Party might be a good place to start.

How does knowing where we are from inform who we are now?

But if they've helped form you into who you are, then they never really leave you; they're always with you in whatever you do, and maybe that's the point.

Rescuers don't have capes and wrist web-shooters and X-ray vision, but there is a superpower that comes from knowing you're making a difference in the world around you. And like the ability to walk on a leash, it makes anything feel possible.

friends talk her into this. Standing

One thing about public opinion is you can turn it in an instant with the right illusion.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

The Treachery of the Intellectuals.

After Chaucer's death, Henry IV offered his position to Christine de Pizan, no doubt hoping that as she was a widow and her only child, her sixteen-year-old son, was effectively a hostage in his household, she could be persuaded to agree. If so, he completely misjudged this redoubtable woman, who had once replied to criticism "that it was inappropriate for a woman to be learned, as it was so rare . . . that it was even less fitting for a man to be ignorant, as it was so common.

Por lo que me toca, me pregunto si alguna vez conseguiré hacer sentir que el verdadero y único personaje que me interesa es el lector, en la medida en que algo de lo que escribo debería contribuir a mutarlo, a desplazarlo, a extrañarlo, a enajenarlo.

Me di cuenta de que ser un escritor latinoamericano significaba fundamentalmente que había que ser un latinoamericano escritor: había que invertir los términos y la condición de latinoamericano, con todo lo que comportaba de responsabilidad y deber, había que ponerla también en el trabajo literario.