Quotes About Influence

You can only make choices for yourself. You can offer to help others find their way, but it is their decision if they will accept your help. You cannot force them to accept, even if you are in the right.

A menudo resulta que hechos del pasado lejano siguen influyendo en las relaciones actuales. Darse cuenta de las causas fundamentales de vidas anteriores puede servir para arreglar la relación del presente.

The steady day-in and day-out pounding of undermining influences, such as a parent's scathing criticisms, could cause even more psychological trauma than a single traumatic event. These damaging influences, because they blend into the everyday background of our lived, are even more difficult to remember and exorcise.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us

20If you want to grow in wisdom, spend time with the wise. Walk with the wicked and you'll eventually become just like them.

11The blessing of favor resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it higher,f but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words.

All the authority of the universe has been given to me.h 19Now go in my authorityi and make disciples of all nations,

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

In short, you should care because if you don't put effort into building and maintaining your culture, your team will eventually be overtaken by a strong personality who cultivates his culture in your team.

it sometimes seems that the quality of your work has less value than the volume of your voice. And

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.' – Chinese proverb

Court ended up deciding who won the election. Can you imagine that shit happening in the US? Judges deciding who gets to be president?

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Hitler] Mesélt linzi ifjúságáról és arról, hogy gyermekként milyen nagy hatással volt rá a linzi Landestheaterben látott LOHENGRIN-el?adás. Akkoriban megfordult a fejében, hogy operaénekes lesz.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

it's taking over me.

Did you read John Calvin as a child, too?" I asked her. My aunt answered by quoting John Calvin: "The effect of our knowledge . . . ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear." Which I understood to mean "Yes." Because I, too, had been made to read John Calvin when I was a child,

Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?