Quotes About Influence

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Children need adult men in their lives.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.