Quotes About Influence

Il ragazzo è cattivo perché sua mamma è una ubriacona o un rottame. Gli lascia fare quello che vuole. Non gli insegna la differenza tra ciò che è giusto e ciò che è sbagliato. Non è a casa quando torna da scuola. Nessuno dice mai che suo padre è un ubriacone, o che non è a casa quando lui torna da scuola. E nessuno dice che alcuni di questi ragazzi sono solo maledettamente cattivi.

And there's an ownership to destruction, an intimacy: an appropriation.

indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

Blame confers an awesome power. And it's simplifying, not only to onlookers and victims, but to culprits most of all.

There's no better way to get people to cooperate in this country than by seeming a little unhinged.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Every day, we pay lip service to democratic values and then again and again make undemocratic choices in the marketplace. Bestsellers are bestsellers because we buy them: nothing more.

Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER

Grandmother. The true power behind the power.

Party parents figure that if their daughter is going to do risky things when with her friends, she'll be safer if she and her friends do those risky things right under their noses. But party parents rob their daughter of one of the best protections she has: the ability to blame her good behavior on them.

One explanation is that popularity brings hard work, regardless of how girls come by it. Girls who are at the center of large tribes have a lot of social connections to maintain and often run into loyalty conflicts.

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be "channeling" someone else's thoughts and feelings.

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

great leaders do not set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It is never about the role- it is always about the goal