Quotes About Influence

En la época colonial sucedió lo mismo. Los leones me recuerdan a los soldados del ejército portugués. Habíamos fantaseado tanto con esos portugueses que se volvieron poderosos. Los portugueses no tenían fuerza para ganarnos. Por eso, hicieron que sus víctimas se matasen a sí mismas. Y nosotros, negros, aprendimos a odiarnos a nosotros mismos.

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão é capaz de derrotar um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha.

The world is full of instructions and advice on how to mother, in bookstores, in academia, on the playgrounds, in the media. Mothers are always examining how they treat their children, but aside from the occasional "Don't talk to your mother that way," or "You shouldn't have listened to your mother," there's not much guidance out there for daughters.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Kay remained preoccupied with a lesson he had assimilated from Marshall McLuhan: Once humans shape their tools, they turn around and "reshape us.

people around you filter information, often with good intentions.

Thank you with everything that is in me for changing my life, for impacting me for eternity.

Search "Power words" on Google and you'll find plenty of them. Or

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

the old idea that a rock band can be a vital, inspiring part of a community of people looking to improve society.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

the myth of the secret society, if not the secret society itself, played a major role in nineteenth-century European history.

René d'Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding the Renaissance.

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born Rastafari," but had "assumed the posture" in the late seventies or early eighties after being exposed to reggae music.

You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.

If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God's continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

with a particular history, in a particular place and local culture, perhaps informed by a particular mood or thought. This means we also have to mix in human agency, the part played by people's own reactions. Altogether, it's an enigmatic alchemy of often transitory influences and impulses. As a result, there is little observable order.

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

a country can be too small, too socially knitted, too tightly tied for its own good. Strong social networks can, in certain circumstances, turn to incestuous corruption and the shutting down of democratic discourse. You

We are often consciously unaware of the culture we live or work in, or of the profound influence it has on our lives.