Quotes About Influence

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

Environment is stronger than will.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

I think we are very environmental people. We need to be supported environmentally. Books very much have that imprint on the mind.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.