Quotes About Influence

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.

I think we become good parents by either copying what our parents did or doing the opposite. The trick is in deciding which way you want to go.

I didn't want who I was to rub off on you too much, like a weak spirit was contagious.

Margaret Darlington had the kind of power that made sane people do insane things.

Vad jag vet är, att av sjuka föräldrar och sjuka lärare fostras ännu sjukare barn, tills det sjuka har blivit norm och det friska en skräckbild. Av ensamma föds ännu ensammare, av rädda ännu räddare (s. 144)

If you like someone, you'll believe anything they say," Matteus said. "Think about that for a while. When you sit in your office talking to Johnny Beskow.

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but over time, as children become more self-directive, the immediate influence of parent support might wane.

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

papal tyrant the like of whom has not been seen for many centuries.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Quando il sole della cultura è basso, anche i nani hanno l'aspetto di giganti.

No one wants to see curvy women.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.