Quotes About Influence

Cuídate de los que saben escribir, pues tienen el poder de enamorarte sin siquiera tocarte.

No hay sustancias más letales que esas que se cuelan por cualquier parte, que se respiran sin saberlo, en las palabras o en el amor o en la amistad.

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

qué cabeza cortar si siempre quedará otra más autoritaria. (Lucas, sus luchas con la hidra)

las palabras decidieron el curso de las acciones, tal como suele ocurrir en esta vida.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Yo creía empezar a entender que el problema no estaba en más o menos libros leídos. Estaba en otra parte, en nosotros mismos que elegíamo entre tantos libros precisamente aquellos que nos hacen lo que somos

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

He bestows the world like a colossus, and we petty men walk under his huge legs, to peep about, and find ourselves dishonorable graves. The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Let me have men about me that are fat.... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in Our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

and because I was still influenced at the time by Idealist and Nietzschcan views, which I combined with a Tantric perspective. I was even to criticise Guenon's book on Vedanta in writing (in the magazine Realistic Idealism [Idealismo realistico]). Guenon addressed my criticism, but, evidently, the two of us were speaking a different language. Only gradually did I come to appreciate the value of Guenon's work, which allowed me to more ad¬ equately put my own ideas into focus.

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven." But

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.