Quotes About Influence

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

The West withers every non-Western soul that touches it.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Optimisim is a fairly modern invention. — Classical literature lacks this vulgar sentiment.

Once he settles down in the country he admires, the foreigner bastardizes exactly that which he admires.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

At last comes Malherbe and, the first to do so in France, brings to his verse a smooth cadence.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.

Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.

Quelle liberté nous reste-t'il si nos propres choix sont conditionnés par des émotions sur lesquelles nous n'avons aucune emprise ?

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

I think the reason so many people adored him has to do with the inarticulable sensation that his person was as large as his art. As people fell in love with Ben Meechum, Will McLean, Tom Wingo, Jack McCall, and Leo Bloom, they fell simultaneously in love with Pat, the writer and the man.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

Admire your heroes. Adapt from your models. learn from your mentors.

By studying the masters -- not their pupils.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.