Quotes About Influence

México siempre construyó en su cúpula, de distintos modos, la similar versión de un hombre fuerte, encarnación institucional o espuria del poder absoluto, dispensador de bienes y males: padre, árbitro, verdugo

la historia nos enseña que una vez tomadas por alguien todas las instancias del poder, el poder se vuelve autónomo, se alimenta a sí mismo, separado de su sociedad por el mismo control que ejerce sobre ella, y puede arrastrar por años a sus gobernados por el lado equivocado de la historia.

El país recuerda demasiado y recuerda mal. En muchos sentidos, es prisionero de su pasado.

The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it is the queen, it is the Child, it is a person who is greater than I and who surpasses you as well, whom you do not know. I am your scribe.

Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?

Power belongs to the smallest and to the dead.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.

Keep a government poor and weak and it's your servant; let it get rich and powerful and it's your master.

Well, that was one thing you had to give [Makann] credit for. He wanted to run out the Gilgameshers. Everybody was in favor of that. Now, Trask could remember something he'd gotten from Harkaman. There had been Hitler, back at the end of the First Century Pre-Atomic; hadn't he gotten into power because everybody was in favor of running out the Christians, or the Moslems, or the Albigensians, or somebody?

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The Butterfly Effect was no accident; it was necessary.

It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device.

There is no force in the life of ancient man, the influence of which so pervades all his activities as does that of the religious faculty. Its fancies explain for him the world about him, its fears are his hourly master, its hopes his constant Mentor, its feasts are his calendar, and its outward usages are to a large extent the education and the motive toward the gradual evolution of art, literature and science.

The fact of the matter is, the more power you have, the easier it is to find solutions to any problems. You merely surround yourself with the right people, the right brains – they come up with the answers and you take the glory.

Jung says we must look at the intentionality of the characters and where they are heading, for they are the main influence upon the shape of the stories. Each carries his own plot with him, writing his story, both backwards and forwards, as he individuates. Jung gives far more weight to individual character than either to narrative or to plot. If

Acceptând ideea c? suntem consecinÈ›a unui amestec subtil de forÈ›e ereditare È™i factori de mediu, reducem persoana uman? la un simplu rezultat.

One of them was my father. He did not train aristocrats to govern the Empire or plutocrats to run their fathers' businesses, but he employed his wise and sweetening influence just as valuably among the thousands of elementary schoolboys who knew and know him still in a London suburb.

Life is not about who you are or what you are, it's about how you make a positive difference to the world.

Who were you before the someone told you what you were not?

Who were you before someone told you what you were not?

No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.

No response is a response, and it's a powerful one. Remember that.