Quotes About Influence

To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance by nameless people is irresistible.

It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. - You are never sure of a good impression being durable. Every body may sway it: let those who would be happy be firm.

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,* and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady,* with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All

She wishes there were only dead authors. Living ones are beneath her attention.

It is important to recognise Woolf 's acknowledgement of her father's dually formative influence. The domestic dictator was also an intellectual who powerfully shaped her developing intellect, even if, at times, antithetically so: 'just as a dog takes a bite of grass, I take a bite of him medicinally

In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life.

like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which we put it that counts.

when we feel we can make a difference, and we're given the means to do so, positive outcomes can happen that in turn allow hope to prevail.

But like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad—it is the use to which we put it that counts.

David Greybeard was eventually named one of the fifteen most influential animals that ever lived by Time magazine.

Spring, about the horrific damage caused by the use of DDT." "That book really did help start a movement," I agreed. "The right book or the right film at the right time really can change the culture. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is another example. Books like Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy have

The environment we create will determine what prevails. In other words, what we nurture and encourage wins.

No puede pasar un día sin una repercusión tuya en el mundo que te rodea. Tus acciones marcan una diferencia y tú decides que tipo de diferencia quieres marcar.

every single individual matters, has a role to play, and makes an impact on the planet—every

It wasn't what you knew, he always said, it was who you knew.

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money. To sound nicer, we may call these "public opinion" and "disbursement of funds," but they are still votes and money.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money.

Your child will learn to respect and value the needs and feelings of others by watching the choices you make.

The physical organism itself then, even as you know it, exists and moves and reacts and influences, and is influenced by, many fields or planes of actuality; and its existence as you know it in your universe is determined by and dependent upon its existence within other fields, of which man is still intellectually ignorant.

Ideas not only alter the world constantly, they make it constantly.

You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it.

It was always and ever hard to tell with women why they chose one way and not another.