Quotes About Influence

Nuestros libros, en cuanto dejan nuestras manos, tienen vida propia.

right now,I am my father

You have made my life better by just simply existing.

Intersecting lives shape each other only to become footnotes.

You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.

Ideas do matter and do have consequences.

A mind that distrusts itself cannot inspire the best in the minds of others. Neither can leaders inspire the best in others if their primary need, arising from their insecurities, is to prove themselves right and others wrong.

I send out signals and behave in ways that increase the likelihood that others will respond appropriately.

The level of our self-esteem influences how we act, and how we act influences the level of our self-esteem.

Coopersmith discovered no significant correlations with such factors as family wealth, education, geographic living area, social class, Father's occupation, or always having Mother at home. What he did find to be significant was the quality of the relationship between the child and the important adults in his or her life.

The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.

A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!

But there is an influence in the light of the morning that tends to rectify whatever errors of fancy, or even of judgment, we may have incurred during the sun's decline, or among the shadows of the night, or in the less wholesome glow of moonshine.

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)

Ecco infatti una caratteristica della maggior parte degli uomini: di diventar feroci soltanto perché è in loro potestà fare del male.

seize the public by the button

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

ambition is a talisman more powerful than witchcraft.

They are practised politicians, every man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary measures, which steal from the people, without its knowledge, the power of choosing its own rulers.

There is no greater bugbear than a strong-willed relative, in the circle of his own connections.

You have to be careful, Terauchi always warned us, or you'll wind up in some database. Then adults will control you.

It seems in the final analysis that people who get involved in religion are only after their own personal happiness.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.