Quotes About Influence

The actions, thoughts, and words of each of us are important. All of us together are making the world. So we have to ask ourselves: "How am I living? What kind of actions am I taking? Am I a force for good in the world or am I just another person doing nothing to help and therefore making things worse?

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Mon vœu, quand j'ai commencé à écrire, a été d'être un écrivain roumain. Comme tant d'autres avant moi, qu'ils aient été grecs (I[on] L[uca] Caragiale, Alexandru A. Philippide), arméniens (Garabet Ibr?ileanu), juifs (Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher) ou de bien d'autres origines, depuis le Géorgien Antim Ivireanul, jusqu'au « russe » Nichita St?nescu.

What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

spite of every lie uttered or printed, the truth comes to the top, and it is known alike by peoples and rulers, that on the whole British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of Mankind.

I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in a strange way they become commitments which one has to live. I have gained a deep respect for the demonic power of the word. Words are not idle. They have consequences.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

When asked what his greatest life achievement was, Norman Thomas replied: "The intellectual theft of every one of my ideas by the Democratic Party."

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Entonces triunfará María, Madre de Dios (a la que Nostradamus indica como una curiosa perífrasis, siendo «maría» el plural del nombre latino «mare»), de la cual se ha dicho que «las puertas del Infierno no prevalecerán contra ella».

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.

Maybe Jane was right. Maybe he was wrong to have filled her head with tales of Bessie Smith and Josephine Baker, let alone take her to see Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Maybe it wasn't right to wake up to Chico Hamilton, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey in the morning. Watch the sunset with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Little Willie John. But Greer didn't know what else to offer that was beautiful and colored and alive, all at the same time.

time is the third party to every relationship.

Basta hojear las biografías o las autobiografías de grandes estudiosos para descubrir casi siempre el recuerdo del encuentro con un docente que, durante los estudios secundarios o superiores, fue decisivo para orientar la curiosidad hacia esta o aquella disciplina. Todos nosotros hemos podido experimentar hasta qué punto la inclinación hacia una materia especifica ha sido suscitada, con mucha frecuencia, por el carisma y la habilidad de un profesor.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Who had brought him this way? Whose was the unseen hand, the unseen leash?