Quotes About Influence

Although mindfulness does not remove the ups and downs of life, it changes how experiences like losing a job, getting a divorce, struggling at home or at school, births, marriages, illnesses, death and dying influence you and how you influence the experience. . . . In other words, mindfulness changes your relationship to life.

I don't think that anything I've done in my life would have been possible without my mother.

Many of the opportunities you have in your life are generated by the energy you create around you.

what people contribute to the world around them has everything to do with how they engage with the world within them.

the main role of a school's principal is not command and control, it is climate control.

If you want to change the world," he said, "who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

Una buena educación depende de una buena enseñanza».

El principal papel de un director escolar no es mandar y controlar, sino estimular de forma creativa el ambiente.

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

The effect of education on a person's life depends on the sort of school they go to and the teachers they have.

Languages are the bearers of the cultural genes.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

To see the past from the vantage point of the present is to be able to judge the effect of the past on the present.

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Sa sultanijom je nestalo jedino bi?e na svijetu koje joj je moglo nametnuti svoj zakon...

He was drunk enough that he was willing to share his wisdom with me.

Also alleged to have been involved in assassination attempts on Castro is Dr. John P Nichols, the administrator in the Cabazon/Wackenhut venture which Danny Casolaro investigated. Edwin Wilson is said to have been a "junior officer" in the attempts to assassinate Castro and his supporters.

Words matter, words have import.

All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.

My definition of success is control.

For rhetoric as such is not rooted in any past condition of human society. It is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic, and is continually born anew; the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Speech in its essence is not neutral.

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

Israelis are a mix of North African, Levantine, and Eastern European, which inflames the politics but does amazing things for the women.