Quotes About Influence

Nunca podría hacerles daño a sabiendas –dijo Flajsman- pero no me interesa lo que pueda hacer inintencionadamente, porque eso esta fuera de mi campo de influencia, y por lo tanto, fuera de mi responsabilidad

Non potremo mai stabilire con certezza fino a che punto i nostri rapporti con gli altri sono il risultato dei nostri sentimenti, del nostro amore, del nostro non-amore, della nostra bontà o del nostro rancore e fino a che punto sono condizionati dal rapporto di forze tra gli individui.

No solo era físicamente parecida a su madre, sino que a veces me parece que su vida no era más que una prolongación de la vida de la madre, poco más o menos como la trayectoria de una bola de billar es solo la prolongación del movimiento de la mano del jugador

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Imitatie betekent geen gebrek aan authenticiteit, want het individu kan niet anders dan imiteren wat al heeft plaats gevonden; hoe oprecht hij ook is, hij is slechts een resultante van de suggesities en aanmaningen die voortkomen uit de put van het verleden.

a hatalom akkor a legédesebb, amikor legelfogadhatatlanabb. Amikor a buta az okos, a gyenge az erÅ's, a ronda a szép felett uralkodik...

But her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty, and she would never forget that music. Whenever she heard it, she would be touched. Everything going on around her at that moment would be haloed by the music and take on its beauty.

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Es curioso, la gente emplea palabras groseras de la mañana a la noche, pero, cuando oye hablar por la radio a una persona conocida, a la que aprecia, utilizando la palabra "Mierda" en cada frase, se siente decepcionada

Non solo assomigliava fisicamente alla madre, ma a volte ho l'impressione che la sua vita non sia stata che un prolungamento della vita della madre [...].

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it--which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey...

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.

The family, rather than the individual, has always been and remains today the basic building block of our society, though its hold has clearly been weakening—one of the most unfortunate consequences of the growth of government paternalism.

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions

Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts.

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.