Quotes About Influence

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

When we trade the effort of doubt and debate for the ease of blind faith, we become gullible and exposed, passive and irresponsible observers of our own lives. Worse still, we leave ourselves wide open to those who profit by influencing our behavior, our thinking, and our choices. At that moment, our agency in our own lives is in jeopardy.

The energy now spent on self-protection can be converted into positive energy if we're willing to encounter reality and see it clearly. Facing reality is an empowering act - it can liberate our mind and heart to discern how best to use our power and influence in service for this time.

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

Part of Nietzsche's appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives and, later, the Nazis did. Sadly, Nietzsche was not available to explain himself; he went mad in 1889 and died in 1900, the year of the Paris Exposition.

He told conductors how to conduct and painters how to paint. As Edward said unkindly, he was "the most brilliant failure in history."33

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my work. Don't listen to anyone but me. You are to be my command laid on my enemy. you'll make a hole in him through which he'll drip away until he runs dry. As he drips out darkness, we'll smile together, me inside, you outside. We'll crush him between our smiles.

Our mothers live under our skin.

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

I'll never know how many men loved her before me, but I know that each of them, whether he was good to her or wrong, did his part in shaping her, making her what she is.

Non saprò mai quanti uomini l'hanno amata prima di me, ma so che ognuno, accudendola o scalfendola, ha contribuito a plasmarla, a farla così com'è.

Why do we insist of depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Why do we insist on depriving ourselves of the best people in life? Why do we spend so much time with people who don't interest us, who don't do us any good - people who simply happen along to corrupt us with their lies and train us to keep our heads down?

Remember that sometimes it's when we're simply being ourselves that we make a difference.

What does the father represent? For Martin Luther, our fathers are godly to us: how we see our fathers has a lot to do with how we see, or don't see, God: for God manifests himself in the father.

Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.