Quotes About Influence

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve

they raise hell 'cause nobody raised them

Music is always a commentary on society.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Great power involves great responsibility

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and to find no one there.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too much care and who were honored in proportion as they produced the results, irrespective of the means they used.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Just as Nabisco and Kraft wanted to change how we eat and what we eat, Amazon, Facebook, and Google aspire to alter how we read and what we read.

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit.

Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

Witches don't look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

This is more like the scientists I know. Authority outweighs evidence, at least for as long as the authority lives.

defined self-socialization: "The process whereby children influence the direction and outcomes of their development through selective attention, imitation, and participation in particular activities and modalities of interaction that function as key contexts of socialization.

Afterward all participants were invited to spit into a cup, which allowed scientists to extract a hormone associated with anxiety. They found that with confident speakers, the audience followed every word, feeling relaxed, but with nervous ones, the speaker's discomfort rubbed off on the audience. The hormone levels of speakers and audiences converged the way they did between vole mates.35

Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order