Quotes About Influence

Every cause is painful, and every loss leaves us wondering how we could have acted otherwise to prevent the death. But because different causes of death provoke sufficiently different responses—anger toward suicide victims; blame for homicide, terrorism, and war; helplessness and fear with natural disasters; and hopelessness with terminal disease—the specific way a mother dies or leaves influences how her daughter will respond. Long-term

Strange, now, how after so many years my mother's model is starting to recede. Before I became a mother, I was a motherless daughter, and "motherless" always overshadowed "daughter" in that phrase. Now I'm a motherless mother, and "mother" is the word that carries most of the weight. Early loss influences me, daily, but it doesn't define me anymore.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

The man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

And the man who remains calm inevitably takes command of a situation.

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good.

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

How much more would a few good and fervent men effect in the ministry than a multitude of lukewarm ones!" said Oecolampadius, the German Reformer

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

It is important for leaders to know their stories; to get them straight; to communicate them effectively, particularly to those who are in the thrall of rival stories; and, above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell.

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull. Your life is no longer your own.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal

Both science and history are moving targets. Scholars in the twenty-first century are much more aware than those of earlier generations that scientists operate under the influence of powerful metaphors (science as exploration, discovery, documentation, thrust and counterthrust), and that both the scope and the tools of history undergo continual changes.