Quotes About Influence

Me gustan los escritores que hablan sobre el hecho de escribir y citan continuamente frases de otros autores

What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.

Eres los sabores que tuviste en la boca de niño. Eres lo que tocaste en esa edad, esa plastilina que ibas ablandando de tanto tocarla. Las cosas que escuchaste y se quedaron allí, dentro de la cabeza, con un eco de por vida. También eres los aromas que te abrieron los ojos.

You still have no idea the affect you can have.

The parent of a child, as Deborah Tannen has written, has the power not only to create the world the child lives in but the ability to dictate how that world is to be interpreted. Seen from that point of view, one of the lasting and important legacies of a mean mother is a wellspring of self-doubt. The other, explained by adaptive behavior, is a need to replicate the relationship she has to her mother with other people, regardless of how unhappy it makes her.

The mother's relationship to her daughter not only formed the earliest, if not primary, foundation for all the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.

The mother's relationship to her daughter not only forms the earliest, if not primary, foundation for how the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.

They cover a wide spectrum of abilities and traits: being self-aware, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, critical thinking, attitude, initiative, empathy, confidence, integrity, self-control, organizational awareness, likability, influence, risk taking, problem solving, leadership, time management, and then some.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Bad taste is a virus that gains strength as it spreads. People want to imitate it and outdo it.

history is not only made by people, it is people.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.

If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I think it is so far outside his area of expertise, he can't really interfere. - I don't think that ever stopped anyone interfering in anything.

thing we can do for the young is set an example,' said Oliver slowly. 'I discovered that long ago. They don't listen to us, they find most of what we have to say at best tedious and at worst inane. We can influence them simply by what we do and how we do it. Now think about

I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.

Kings are like stars—they rise and set, they haveThe worship of the world, but no repose.

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.

Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.