Quotes About Influence

And it's not that Pearl Jam was any more amazing than anyone else. I think we just liked who we were when they were who they were.

When Nirvana came onto the scene, they pretty much saved music.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Las personas son tan imprevisibles que en ocasiones incluso a mí se me hace difícil manipularlas. A veces conviene dejarles algo de libertad para que actúen según su lamentable criterio. Con un poco de suerte, acaban empeorando bastante las cosas.

Aunque a ratos de olvides de mi, ingrato elctor, yo sigo manejando los hilos. Estoy al acecho detrás de las palabras y guío tus pasos -y también tus emociones- a través de esta historia. Pero sigo aquí y cuando me convenga apareceré, sin que tú puedas evitarlo.

Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

The true leader is always led.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents," wrote Jung "but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child – what they add by word at best serves only to confuse him.

through their families—and those families are important models for the rest of us