Quotes About Influence

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. It's as though they already know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time...

There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.

The hips were the leaders of this conspiracy. So I rang my boss and held the phone to my hips so he could hear them too.

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.

When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together.

Most people in life don't have to actively do anything to change us, they simply need to be. I reacted to you. You affected me. You helped me.

This wasn't just my journey, this wasn't just about me falling down and a man rescuing me, though I did trip and you fell and love did happen for me and was mended and repaired for you. This is about you and me, our fall and rise with the seasons, and about what happened when one door closed for both of us. I don't know if I would be this woman now if it weren't for you, and you may not even think you did anything.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

The moon made me do it.

And that's what the problem was – Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn't written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn't noticed it happening because she hadn't minded.

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, he says, glaring at me, nostrils flaring like a wolf. Doesn't say a lot about the company you keep, does it. That's one, he points in Paddy's direction. I wonder who the other four losers are in your life.

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

The impotant thing is not what we look like but the role we play in our best friend's life

Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is.

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with

Anyway, my point is (I know, I know, there is one), I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex.

So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we? Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.