Quotes About Influence

My life has been guided by an unseen piano player, who is actually typing this now.

If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME.

If you want to be like the folks up on the hill, you have to learn to smile while you kill

More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia

Having navigated himself into unchallenged authority, he used it to turn a failing republic—as if it were a Virgilian vine—into an empire that flourishes

With the precedents of Soviet unilateralism in Europe all too clearly in mind, there was no desire within the new Truman administration to see something similar repeated in Northeast Asia. Here, then, the Americans embraced Stalin's own equation of blood with influence. They had done most of the fighting in the Pacific War. They alone, therefore, would occupy the nation that had started it.

Statesmen of this type know what to do and when to do it, if they are to achieve their ends, which themselves are usually not born within some private world of inner thought, or introverted feeling, but are the crystallisation, the raising to great intensity and clarity, of what a large number of their fellow citizens are thinking and feeling in some dim, inarticulate but nevertheless persistent fashion.

He insisted on flying to Washington in a new and untested airplane so that its size would intimidate his hosts.

Si corre un pericolo non da poco quando si sta troppo vicino al fiume di pensieri di un'altra persona, perchè più forte è la corrente e più è facile caderci dentro e venire trascinati lontano da sè stessi.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. OSCAR WILDE

The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. MARK TWAIN

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

Simon Le Bon spotted me having a problem there, and he went, 'Don't you know who he is?' and that was it, I was in. I thought, 'Bloody hell, it takes Duran Duran to get Johnny Rotten into a building!' I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like 'Girls On Film', and I can't pretend otherwise.

In the United States, the story is particularly one of a handful of extraordinary people, of whom Paul Lewis is one.

He was saying that mixing church and state corrupted the church. He was saying that when one mixes religion and politics one gets politics.

The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

I am Public Opinion. All men fear me!

positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

Both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Club, which gave rise to several dozen companies that forged the personal computer industry—including Apple—emerged from the fertile ground that Raymond created.

Zelig-like penchant for being intimately involved in a series of key social and technological movements

Mike Brand had counseled his brother not to focus on selecting individual courses but rather to find the best professors. One of those he recommended was a charismatic professor of religion, Frederic Spiegelberg.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.