Quotes About Influence

Patients who are 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.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls it's a bit scary, actually.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Everything you've ever fed him," I say. "His whole self is made completely out of your love.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

It's just words. How can words be dangerous?" "You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words." "That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead." "Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

Well, you know how it is. We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.

That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead." "Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.

All he had to do was not look down. And yet he always looked down. Every time. The more he told himself not to look down, the more he looked. It was a key example of life running frustratingly out of his control. Even Buddy seemed to be outside Buddy's sphere of influence.

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more dangerous than words." "That's stupid. What about a gun? A gun can kill you dead." "Only your body," Billy said. "It can't kill your soul. Words can kill your soul.

That was the problem with my mother. I could never fully get her voice out of my head.

was something contagious. "I'm not sure what you're

We either grow up to be our mother or we make a solemn vow to the universe to be her polar opposite. Doesn't work every minute of every day, though.

people want you to do what they think

They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.

Because you can't control other people. You can't be responsible for somebody else.

You can't change anybody's mind. No matter what you say to them. The sooner you figure that out, the happier your life will be.

But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small

Our problem is not that you feel one way and I feel another. Our problem is coming to us from outside this house.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right. Anyway,