Quotes About Influence

We may not be able to damage the sun directly but humans can cause chaos and through that threaten maat on earth. What happens on one level of creation will impact on the others." - Sekhmet & Bastet: The Feline Powers of Egypt

I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.

Tom Brokaw said: "For parents, bribery is a white-collar crime; for grandparents, it's a business plan!

An international celebrity, he said, was better off "leaving politics to the chaps who are paid to do the job, dear.

Merchants of Death.

I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.

You were showing him your muscle?" I froze, wondering how much she had seen. She smiled. "Sometimes it's better to let boys think they're stronger," she told me.

Back then I'd told her, over and over, not to judge people by the way they looked. Or where they lived. Or by their horse or their buggy or their barn. But those days when I held such influence were long gone.

Some people act like witchery is responsible for everything that happens, when actually witchery only manipulates a small portion.

Emotions are seen as crucial in motivating behavior. People generally do what they feel like doing rather than what reason or logic dictates. It follows that to achieve behavioral change, people need to change the emotions motivating their behavior. Emotion also influences thought. When people feel angry, they think angry thoughts; when they are sad, they recall sad memories. To help people change what they think, therapists must help them change what they feel.

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you.

Who we are and who we are becoming is formed as much, if not more, by our unique way of responding.

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. Here's

Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.

If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust--to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

We've got to eventually get the Court on the right track with respect to super PACs and their influence on our political system. And whether that means an amendment to the Constitution or not is an open question.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom.

When coercion of any kind is used in the interests of the Christian message, the message itself is corrupted.

The working concept of God for most ordinary Christians is - if one may venture a bold guess- shaped more by the combination of Greek philosophy and Islamic theology that was powerfully injected into the thought of Christendom at the beginning of the High Middle Ages than by the thought of the fathers of the first four centuries.