Quotes About Influence

Why are you talking to them, they're not important! Brownnose this one! He can HELP you!

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

intellectual trends that originate with a given person have a prehistory of their own

like all over-thrown Communist leaders he became a democrat as soon as he was ousted from power.

Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth;

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.

You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.

What is written with a sword cannot be erased.

In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—he

Highlight: In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

She was their witch queen, and they adored her.

being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum—it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come.

it was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you—

I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

An entire generation now regards Nirvana as its version of the Beatles. They are of course hopelessly mistaken, but I would not recommend you tell them so.

those who care for the good of their country have a duty to publish and that in doing so no one should allow "any private Views or Ends (inconsistent with the common Good) to bias or influence him.