Quotes About Influence

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.

We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It's almost like we're being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don't like. I've been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolicited stylist, interior decorator and marriage counselor... Admittedly, I found it difficult to share my mother with her adoring fans, who treated her like she was part of their family.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

Shaquille O'Neal was probably my favorite athlete growing up. I loved how dominant and unstoppable he was, but also his charisma off the court. He was someone I gravitated toward.

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

Merlin is the unsung hero who is often responsible for things turning out positively, but rarely gets credit for that.

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they could relate to.

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.