Quotes About Influence

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Teach but never try to change people because sometimes they change back.

A hunter only shoots a deer he can see, if you ain't being seen you ain't doing nothing!

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

are the ones most capable of infecting your dreams with doubt and negativity.

me the grace of God. They, as well as other powerful souls, were my spiritual role models. They didn't have great mansions or millions of dollars to leave me when they passed, but they planted the seeds of grace, the invaluable gift of knowing God.

The project of translating liberal ideas of freedom into the institutional framework of liberal democracy involved suppressing such alternate ideas of liberty, of in effect rendering them Other. The increasingly powerful template of racial difference in the modern era provided an influential way of doing so.

I still think the fashion industry has a long way to go as far as self-awareness in the way it affects the people that it employs and targets. I do feel that there are marketing tactics in fashion that purposely instigate people to feel insecure in order to purchase a product to make themselves "better".

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. It's like, "If my thin mom is calling herself fat, what does she think I am? What am I?"

I am who I am today because my mama mama'd me.... Every accolade I get, every accomplishment I've achieved, all my iconic moments and catchy coined phrases (Smize, boo!) are because of her. I am her creation. Her FrankenTy.

I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

I'm the Princess BellaDonna, baby. The head bee-yotch in charge. And from now on, you will do Whatever. I. Say.

My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

L'Histoire l'emporte sur la mémoire, or l'Histoire a besoin de héros.

certidumbres ideológicas siempre han sabido dominar las contingencias individuales.

A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.

Wörter können wie Gift wirken. […] "Sie auch hier?" So ein harmloses Sätzchen, das aus einem freundlichen Mund das genaue Gegenteil besagen könnte. Wer das Wort verabreicht und wie, entscheidet über die Wirkung: Gift oder Gabe, Gnade oder Gnadenstoß.

Ich kann doch nicht verantwortlich sein für das, was war. Ich bin mitverantwortlich für das, was jetzt geschieht.

It is no coincidence that he referred to Kant as "the father of us all" (Piaget, 1965/1971, p. 220).

This raises the question of the role of Kantianism in Piaget's thinking. In the many discussions about this problem with one of us, Piaget denied any influence "except, maybe, a very indirect one…something like what Boring would have called the Zeitgeist and we all know that the Zeitgeist is everywhere, that is nowhere" (personal communication). We know of another example, however, where Piaget tends to cover his tracks carefully (see Piaget, 1982).

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.