Quotes About Influence

Your experiences today will influence the molecular composition of your body for the next two to three months," he tells his audience, "or, perhaps, for the rest of your life. Plan your day accordingly.

Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

All things being equal, people will buy from a friend. All things being not quite so equal, people will still buy from a friend.

Men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck, and they can turn the head any way they want.

It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.

China's ultimate prize is East Asian hegemony, which is probably inevitable in any event. China's eventual regional ascendancy will spell the end of the Pax Americana in East Asia.

There is no peaceful way that China's rise to power can be halted. Her demographics alone see to that.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

Un despote ne doit pas obtenir du crédit.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

In his time on earth, he'd learned one truth above all else when it came to power—those who lost it usually didn't see it vanishing until it was already gone.

What they didn't tell you about absolute power was that it was never absolute; the instant you had it, someone had already lined up to try to take it away. Princes could sleep soundly, but never kings. The ear was always tuned for the creak on the

She had that light about her that turned people around her into moths.

Power, most power anyway, was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

Power—most power anyway, certainly Vidalia's brand of it—was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

Christian parents should each mentally lay their babies on the altar, offering them to God, and promising to do all in their power to win each child to a true following of God that is not superficial, but goes all the way down into the center of their personhood. Then each couple should follow that up with regular prayer for their kids, that they believe, what to say to them, how to influence them, and for help in not turning them off to God.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one's attitude toward one's father largely shaped one's attitude toward God.