Quotes About Influence

We can't shape what we don't understand, and what we don't understand and use ends up shaping us.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I said honestly. "You can only be formed by your society." I came up with a quote I had heard once: " 'Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'

It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.

Even in London, where space was at a premium, churchyards were traditionally filled with trees, evidence of a lasting pagan influence.

THE ACTUAL WORD 'influenza' dates from around 1500, when the Italians introduced the term for diseases that they attributed to the 'influence' of the stars. Another possible origin was the Italian phrase influenza di freddo, the influence of the cold.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Matthew told to Eden what:" she sneaked into my heart and went to work, chipping away, day in and day out, until she hollowed out a corner all for herself, and then, as if that wasn't enough, she went and carved her name on it.

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!

I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.

Joe and the Gladiator The Nipper Rory's Fortune Our John Willie Mrs. Flannagan's Trumpet Go tell It To Mrs Golightly Lanky Jones Bill and The Mary Ann Shaughnessy AUTOBIOGRAPHY Our Kate Let Me Make Myself Plain Plainer Still The Black Candle Bridget Deane Mordaunt was a woman of some consequence in her own part of the world.

I am fast learning that in politics there is no such thing as truth, there's only who's the best liar and how well he's able to twist things to his advantage, and how many cronies he has who lie as well as he does.

YOU ARE THE CHIEF.

Maybe it is from all of the processed foods in this country, or maybe it is hormones, but something odd happens to the American brain when we start to breed, and our weakness for stuff, stuff, and more stuff gets further inflated.

We are the subjects, and so is everything around us, of all manner of subtle and inexplicable influences: and if our ancestors attached too much importance to these ill-understood arcana of the night-side of nature, we have attached too little.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive...

I'm willing to get you've given a good bit of your power away today to something you believe is outside of your control.

I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.

The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold.

Whatever role we are loved for in our family, we will continue to enact it, despite the toll it takes.

Patients who were rarely praised as children, often distrust the positive things people say about them as adults. A child's concept of self is formed in childhood and it takes a long time with many affirmative examples to turn that self-concept around.

The only thing I do know is that when your mother labels you negatively, you believe her—for who else forms your self-image?