Quotes About Influence

You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

But I had their instant, magnetic liking for my enemy and before I knew where, or even who I was, I had become prisoner of the effect I had on them. [...] I was shackled not so much to my good looks, as to what people, after seeing me, first imagined and then through their imaginations compelled me to be.

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting ... but whatever it's worth I did it.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.

The star impel but don't compel!

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Getting information out of interviewees, she had learned over the years, was sometimes like walking a large, reluctant cow: you had to turn the cow onto the right path while letting the cow believe it was doing the steering.

A community is known by the schools it keeps.

About which books are useful to their students and which books might expose them to dangerous ideas. Let me ask you something: Whose parents want them to spend time with bad people?

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Lucille Clifton, Adrienne Rich, Ada Limón,

A man's character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

Dahi, hocas?n? iyi seçendir.

Güne? ülkeleri ayd?nlat?r, sözler milleti.

Hâkim s?n?f?n olmad??? ülkelerde, ba?ka toplumlardan ideolojiler toplumun hâkim dü?üncesini belirler.

?ngiliz hodgâmd?r, heyecans?zd?r. Bir millet de?il, bir y???n. Y???n? kolayca kand?rabilirsiniz, duygular? hiçbir temele dayanmaz. Y???n dü?ünmez, mâruz kal?r. Nezleye yakalan?r gibi tutulur bir fikre. Ate?i yükselince arslanla??r, nöbet geçince her mukaddesi unutuverir. Büyük bir milletin duygular? ölçülü, düzenli, devaml?d?r.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Jamgön Kongtrül of Sechen and Khenpo Kangshar—leading teachers in the Nyingma and Kagyü lineages.