Quotes About Influence

Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

My weapon is literature.

If a child washes his hands he could eat with kings

The fly that has no one to advise him follows the corpse into the ground.

This was what British administration was doing among the Ibos, making a dozen mushroom kings grow where there was none before.

Satan is always content to hide in the shadows of a worldview if he can exploit that worldview to his own ends.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all?

ELVIS & MARILYN: The deader they get - the more money they make.

Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?

El vídeo después de la televisión La televisión no es vulgar y lasciva porque la gente que compone la audiencia sea vulgar y lasciva. La televisión es así simplemente porque las personas suelen ser muy similares en sus intereses vulgares y lascivos, y ampliamente diferentes en sus intereses refinados, estéticos y nobles. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Then television took over, birthing the ultimate in lockstep culture.

You can influence Tony. You can pray for him and ask God to work in his heart. You can love him with the kind of love only God can give you. But you can't make decisions for him. You can't change him. You can only allow God to change you. You can change the way you think about him and yourself and God. You can believe the truth about the power of God and join Him in what He wants to do.

You think the choices you make just affect you and the other person, but you don't realize how one choice ripples toward everybody. You included.

Every adult is the creation of a child.

The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount.

Money has replaced the vote.

Those who manipulate the shadows that dominate our lives are the agents, publicists, marketing departments, promoters, script writers, tel- evision and movie producers, advertisers, video technicians, photogra- phers, bodyguards, wardrobe consultants, fitness trainers, pollsters, public announcers, and television news personalities who create the vast stage for illusion. They are the puppet masters.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities," Voltaire warned.

I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that's going to affect your interactions with people who look like you.

I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.