Quotes About Influence

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

Forget me, but don't forget my name.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Be someone's muse.

Without Ruth, there would be no record.

Quando i giornali dipendono dalla pubblicità, e la pubblicità è in mano a chi ha il potere politico, come puoi essere libero? Quando i giornali sono posseduti dalle grandi aziende contro le quali non potrai mai scrivere e che hanno i loro interessi politici, come fai a fare del vero giornalismo?

En lugar de seguir avanzando por su propio camino y buscar soluciones asiáticas a sus problemas, Asia importa sin discriminación algunas fórmulas de éxito ajenas. Modernización significa occidentalización y, con ello, Asia pierde definitivamente la conciencia de si misma.

Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a friend's hurt, or break an enemy. Stories make you believe.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

T]he majority possesses an empire so absolute and so irresistible that one must in a way renounce one's rights as a citizen and so to speak one's quality as a man when one wants to deviate from the path it has traced.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

We do not spontaneously produce our identity from our own free act. Identity has an external origin.

In the act of seeing through the symbolic fiction and thereby failing to recognize its efficacy, the cynic does not escape its influence. In fact, this influence is all the more powerful for its having become wholly inconspicuous, which is precisely what befalls the subject in the society of enjoyment.

The authority that we can't recognize as authority is always more powerful than the openly authoritative authority.

More and more he'd begun to recognize the position of importance his students were unconsciously forcing upon him - the ultimate leader of The Wave.

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

A mother provides nourishment for her child at every level, whether she is aware of it or not. Some of this food may be good and some not so good, but everything that she thinks, feels, says, and does affects her offspring as well as her.

Its President was Warren Hastings, who ruled with a rod of iron in one hand and a blank cheque from London in the other.[

I was honestly very nervous of Constance Wheatcroft. And I wasn't the only one. Her entire family was afraid of her. Dogs were afraid of her. Bindweed in the hedge would wither as she passed; birds would forget their nesting instincts and fly back to north Africa at the sound of her hideous cries.