Quotes About Influence

to rid the people of their old beliefs and insert new ones.

The teachers," said one bus driver. "It's always the teachers," the other one said. I sighed, grumbled, kicked at roadside gravel, and slapped my head.

D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, and Aldous Huxley—all visitors, inspired in their writing by their immersion in Oaxaca—would recognize

I made myself very popular with the group by showing them how to shut it [a loudspeaker] off. I wrapped a rubber band around the metal stump and this rubber offered enough of a grip to shut the thing off.

Education in Mexico turns people into activists.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However, those same parents should have zero control over what everyone else's kids can read.

All TV is educational. The question is, 'What are we teaching?

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Story of O is one of those books which marks the reader, which leaves him not quite, or not at all, the same as he was before he read it.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.