Quotes About Influence

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.

I think you'd make a wonderful teacher. You have a strong personality. The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers.

And yet, that day back when Tom told me about all those different laws, he had a thirteen-year-old's spotty understanding of the way the world works but he sure was right about one thing. What matters most are the laws made by the people close to you, the ones you depend on. Now that's Mary. I reach for the ax.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out.

Unser Leben hängt davon ab, was wir aus dem machen, was aus uns gemacht wurde.

Madame Picard believed that a child should be allowed to read anything: 'A book never does any harm if it is well written.' While she was there, I had once asked permission to read Madame Bovary and my mother, in an oversweet voice, had said: 'But if my darling reads books like that at his age, what will he do when he grows up?' 'I shall live them!' This reply had met with the most complete and lasting success.

Every man ought to say to himself, Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?

Every sound comes into my ears dirty because you've heard it on the way

Everything happens to every man as though the whole human race had its eyes fixed upon what he is doing and regulated its conduct accordingly.

Tout homme a son lieu naturel; ni l'orgueil ni la valeur n'en fixent l'altitude: l'enfance décide.

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.