Quotes About Influence

Elementary school children are very impressionable

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. —Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers,        trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers

Politics and religion have always worked in tandem as the primary forces that control humanity. Politics compels compliance by authority, while religion draws compliance by attraction. When these two combine forces, their power becomes virtually absolute.

The answer is that we don't finish our work when we die. It lives on after us. What we have done on earth, if it amounts to anything, continues after we die physically. How could there be rewards and judgments when our earthly life is over? Our influence upon friends, family, the people we knew during our lifetimes, does not cease when our obituaries appear in the local paper.

If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children's lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That's the most basic rationale for investing

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we will soon yield to that which is around us.

As the rudder controls a ship, so the tongue controls a person.

Saya percaya jika sebuah buku tidak berdampak pada penulisnya, buku tersebut tidak akan berdampak pada orang lain.

Christians of different nations are far more intimately related to one another than to the ungodly of their fellow-countrymen. Consequently, when their influence predominates, the jarrings of hatred will yield to the cementing power of Christian love: Swords shall be turned into plough-shares, and spears into pruning hooks. -- David King, from The Lords Supper. page 57.

America was being replaced by a new source of wisdom

while a deluded president can be replaced at the next election, one cannot replace a deluded population so easily.

Shortly after the Civil War, religious leaders assailed pulp novels as "Satan's efficient agents to advance his kingdom by destroying the young.

All myths originate with truth, sometimes it is to raise the influence of a religion by pacifying fears. Sometimes the reality is far more frightening.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.

If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let in.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting? I shake my head. You try to leave the lives the way you found them. Yeah. But what about Justin? What made that so different? You, I say.

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