Quotes About Influence

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won't notice the theft.

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

Western musicians had to choose between creating sounds and playing notes—and they opted for the latter. But African musicians never got enlightened (or is corrupted the better word?) by Pythagorean thinking.

Looking back at the first century of jazz's history, its most identifiable trademark may simply be this unwillingness to sit still, this mandate to absorb other sounds and influences, this destiny as a music of flux and fusion.

Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro—perhaps initially intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff 's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

Applause is the beginning of abuse

Only when walking with her person did she attack other dogs. More than likely, these attacks occurred because the white Shepherd felt compelled to protect Ms. W. This need was probably fostered by Ms. W. herself as she transmitted her own fears to her dog.

I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

If the Japanese ever got a foothold, British bikes would quickly become only a nostalgic memory.

Whether you're talking about a person or a country, it's okay to be rich and it's okay to be powerful, just as long as you're humble and cooperative. But if you combine being rich and powerful with being arrogant and uncooperative, people won't cut you much slack,

Be bold and the mighty will follow.

It almost seemed as if Buchanan's regime was leasing the country's name, as his friends enriched themselves and presided over a machinery of government that was lubricated with bribery, brandy, and insider deals. In New York, a lawyer, George Templeton Strong, wrote in his diary that he felt like he was reliving "the Roman Empire in its day of rotting.

please someone else.

The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.

Your children see the power of a life of faith as they see you living it.

Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.

our goal is not to maintain control at any cost; it is rather to persuade. Influence and persuasion are always more important than discipline.

Pleasant words grease the wheels of instruction.

Come along with us .… we will get all sorts of plunder .… throw in your lot with us … we will share a common purse … " What is the pitch to the young person in Proverbs 1? It is belonging. The attraction of giving in to the wicked is camaraderie. The appeal is to a very human need to share mutuality with others. Your kids need to belong.

The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make home an attractive place to be.

Change the world with your way of life, one day it will change the direction of the people.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.