Quotes About Influence

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.

When I rode on to meet the army, I learned a thing one never forgets after: how much easier it is to move the many than the few.

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

In hatred is love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

I have always believed that I became a writer because in the fifth grade I had a pencil fight with a classmate and a piece of graphite has been lodged in my palm ever since.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

2. You did not make your child spirited. There is a genetic factor to being spirited, but how one's genes are expressed is significantly influenced by life events. You are but one of the many influences in your child's life. Other parents, relatives, siblings, teachers, neighbors, friends, life experiences, and the world at large all play a part. You make a big difference, but not the only difference.

I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.

how sex roles are determined by the forces around us rather than our genes.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.

The medium is the messenger to the cortex, and it begins to shape it from the very start.

You're doing OK. You're always doing OK however bad you think you are doing this is another page of the book. But remember the responsibility you can have, or the power you can have, to make the sun shine a little brighter for the person next to you. Even if you never see them again it will mean the world to them, what you can do.

It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave. -A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint.

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

Lord Fredrick Ashton himself wanted to become one of her pupils!

she replied, "My lord, are you suggesting that I try to teach you to stop acting so wolfishly, just as I have taught the children?

got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,