Quotes About Influence

Are you creating your thoughts? Or, are your thoughts creating you?

You can either make your habits or your habits can make you.

Trying to control other people and what they think is impossible. We can barely control what we think, how do we expect to control what others think? And

associate me with names that connoted fame, money, and power. These were the relationships she supported, also because they were less attainable. She loved that I had briefly dated John Travolta, Jimmy McNichol, Leif Garrett, Scott Baio, and John Kennedy.

I believed for a long time that I could affect my mother's drinking. Like many children of alcoholics, I thought if I asked a certain way, or made some type of deal with my mother where I promised something, it would be compelling enough to make her stop.

We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.

Biology isn't just genes playing out some unalterable script. It is sensitive to the world around it

She became an obsessive runner and an anorexic. For nine years she barely ate. "When you have an inability to connect with people, and you feel shameful about yourself, the only power you have is over your own body. I couldn't speak up for myself, so this was the only way I could actually exert any influence over myself.

Our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives...

Those who live most devoutly for the world to come are often in the best position to change the present.

The more you know, the more you can control your destiny.

All children are flotsam driven by the ebb and flow of adult lives.

persuasively, that

When you stay out of your family's business, they notice that you have your stuff together and that you're happy, so they start to follow. You've taught them everything they know, and now they begin to learn again. And that's what happened with my children; they just don't see a lot of problems anymore, because in the presence of someone who doesn't have a problem, they can't hold on to one.

He is already an important part of my story.

It is true that one should know the difference between good and evil, if one is to seek good and shun evil, but this knowledge should soak into every thought and influence every act in one's life. Then indeed knowledge becomes virtue.

Poetry and advertising (the basest mode of which is propaganda) are in direct and total opposition. If you do not use language you are used by it.

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

Powerful men who believe their wealth is threatened generally are dangerous.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that ph? was born, a combination of the rice noodles that predominated after a thousand years of Chinese occupation and the taste for beef the Vietnamese acquired under the French, who turned their cows away from ploughs and into bifteck and pot-au-feu. The name of their national soup is pronounced like this French word for fire...

Girls are not passive by nature. They are only so because the culture demands they be.

And it is always the victors who write the historical narrative.

There is nothing more important to me than the power of words to describe, re-create, entrance, and provoke.