Quotes About Influence

In all experiments one must exercise ingenuity in finding other causes besides the one to be studied which may possibly influence a result, and in eliminating these.

When I met Jimmy Burke in 1964, he practically owned New York's Kennedy Airport. If you ask me, they named the place after the wrong Irishman.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The Press, my child," Bight said, "is the watchdog of civilisation, and the watchdog happens to be – it can't be helped – in a chronic state of rabies.

Spiritual age is determined by the acts which make the mornings and evenings of the soul, and not by the motions of the physical globe. The soul should have its own cycles and revolutions, presenting in turn every portion of its existence to the vivifying influence of the great source of light.

She's the latest freshest fruit of our great American evolution. She's the self-made girl! (…) Well, to begin with, the self-made girl's a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn't self-made at all. We all help to make her, we take such an interest in her.

It's you who draw me out. I exist in you. Not in others.

She had not yet divested herself of a young faith that each new acquaintance would exert some momentous influence on her life.

Advertising scientifically worked presented itself thus as the great new force. It really does the thing, you know.

I don't go off easily, but when I'm touched, it's for life. It's for life, Miss Archer, it's for life.

You see, I believe greatly in the influence of women. Living with women helps to make a man a gentleman. (Chapter 7)

She's a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of Savonarola, and I'm not sure she didn't throw a handful of chips into the flame.

The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

We create our fate everyday

My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.

Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I know how to inflame a cunt.

If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)

It is the great mass of mankind, the mob, the people, who create the permanently bad times. The world is only the mirror of ourselves. If it's something to make one puke, why then puke me lads, it's your own sick mugs you're looking at!

Las personas son como los piojos: se te meten bajo la piel y se entierran en ella.

The man who was talking had ceased to be of human size or proportions but had become a Colossus whose silhouette swooned backwards and forwards with the deep droning rhythm of his drug-laden phrases. He went on and on and on, unhurried, unruffled, inexhaustible, inextinguishable, a voice that had taken form and shape and substance, a figure that had outgrown its human frame, a silhouette whose reverberations rumbled in the depths of the distant mountain sides.