Quotes About Influence

Be the difference in someone's life that you know you can make.

tried to make her understand that she couldn't control other people, only her own reaction to them.

you're told a lie often enough, that lie becomes not the truth, but a truth you can come to believe. However

John Edward Acton in 1887. 'Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Most religions teach us to be good people. It's only what men can do with religions that make them bad.

He's got so much drugs and alcohol in him right now that about the only thing I could order him to do and expect a response on would be to smile.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

As a parent, you do have to constantly remind yourself that you are not a god, molding a human in your own image. You are merely supporting whatever your child chooses to become, even if those choices don't always thrill you.

To give is to nudge to nudge is to guide.

it feels as if this big tree must have a direct connection to whoever is in charge.

spoken by Brigid** "The divine endeavors to course through all peoples and religions, Decius. It is only in Christianity that it has best found its home.

Sometimes the spirits speak for you and sometimes the spirits make you speak.

Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama

I don't mean you inspire people with how brave you are or any bullshit like that. I mean you are mindful, and mindful is contagious. You have perspective, so the people around you seek some too. Your effort is apparent, which reminds people of its virtue and necessity.

Public health is not an ideology, religion, or political perspective—indeed, history demonstrates that whenever such forces interfere with or influence public health activities a general worsening of the populace's well-being usually followed.

As soon as Nicholas was born, my mother swore she'd rather see her daughters become Jehovah's Witnesses or pole dancers before she saw her first grandchild in daycare when my sister went back to work. I don't think it was originally the idea of daycare that didn't sit well with her but the fact that there, in a bassinet, was a fresh slate, a lump of clay that could be worked on and molded into the perfect child who had eluded her the first time around with her own daughters.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

But I know that any man whose very presence incites me to nearly throw away my reputation-or whatever shreds of it remain-is someone I must avoid at any cost.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.