Quotes About Influence

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

To live on in the memory of others means that you do not die.

that all good math had come from the Arabs, everyone knew that.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.

Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Do not worry people not knowing you but strive so that you may worth knowing

The Master said, "When you meet persons of exceptional character think to stand shoulder to shoulder with them; meeting persons of little character, look inward and examine yourself.

Staying with good people is like entering a room with orchids. You won't notice the fragrance, but you'll be soaked in the scent. Staying with evil people is just like going inside a stinky fish store. You won't smell it after a while because you will blend with the stench. Keep red things and you'll turn red. Keep lacquer, and you'll turn black ...So a wise man should be careful of where he stays...