Quotes About Influence

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Human nature is to need a map. If you're brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded