Quotes About Influence

Starting in the womb, the developing brain begins to store parts of our life experience. Fetal brain development can be influenced by a host of factors including mother's stress; drug, alcohol, and nicotine intake; diet; and patterns of activity.

Your own experiences and the echoes of your ancestors' experiences influence the way you think, feel, and behave. They are major determinants of your health. And being aware of this can help us remember that everything we do right now is going to echo into the future. Our actions matter; we are impacting the next generations. So are we being as mindful as we could?

All incoming sensory information from the present moment is compared to and influenced by the "memories" of previous experiences

All incoming sensory information from the present moment is compared to and influenced by the "memories" of previous experiences, and is first processed in the lower, more reactive areas of the brain before reaching the rational, "thinking" areas.

Our brains develop as a reflection of the world we grow up with.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Each of us carries around an unspoken set of assumptions that dictate how we expect our lives will unfold. These expectations come from all corners and influence us more than we admit.

Cells, tissues, and organs do not question information sent by the nervous system. Rather, they respond with equal fervor to accurate life-affirming perceptions and to self-destructive misperceptions. Consequently, the nature of our perceptions greatly influences the fate of our lives.

It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies and our minds, and thus our lives . . . Oh ye of little belief!

epigenetics, a booming field of biology that is unraveling the mysteries of how the environment influences the behavior of cells without changing the genetic code.

igual que en las células aisladas, el carácter de nuestra existencia se ve determinado no por nuestros genes, sino por nuestra respuesta a las señales ambientales que impulsan la vida.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

if you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Knowledge can get you power. But character can get you respect.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

was] at home accumulating for the benefit of his master"?49 In the hill country of northern Alabama, farmer James Bell cautioned his son Henry in April 1861 not to be seduced by the rhetoric of the South's large "Negroholders." "All they want," the elder Bell advised, "is to git you pupt up and go fight for there infurnal negroes and after you do there fighting you may kiss there hine parts for o they care.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

What shall we taste like to the future?

If you hadn't been there, the teaching and learning would have been the same.

Increasingly, companies use their power to influence and manipulate their users. Websites that profit from advertising spend a lot of effort making sure you spend as much time on those sites as possible, optimizing their content for maximum addictiveness.

Keeping the fear stoked is big business. Those in the intelligence community know it's the basis of their influence and power. And government contractors know it's where the money for their contracts comes from. Writer

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.