Quotes About Influence

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Any deed, for good or evil, that any human being has ever done, you and I could also do--given the same situational forces.

La difusión de la imagen visual de ese enemigo en carteles y en portadas de revista, en la televisión , en cine y en Internet, hace que esa imagen se fije en los recovecos de nuestro cerebro primitivo, en el sistema límbico, donde residen las potentes emociones del miedo y el odio. El efecto Lucifer

All evil begins with fifteen volts.

Spin doctors in every era have known that perception is infinitely more potent than mere fact.

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

Je me demande si la froideur des pères fait l'extrême sensibilité des fils.

I wonder if it's cold fathers who make the sensitive sons.

What one believes when one is sixteen is more powerful than any truth.

C'est bien la peur éprouvée par d'autres, beaucoup plus que la haine ou je ne sais quel autre sentiment, qui m'avait transformé en victime.

L'idiotie est une maladie qui va bien avec la peur. L'une et l,autre s'engraissent mutuellement, créant une gangrène qui ne demande qu'à se propager.

We all know the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But I contend there is a fourth -- one that is vitally important. You need it to teach the other three. In fact, you need it to teach everything effectively. It touches on all teaching and learning. The fourth R is rapport.

source material for wider reception. Indeed, when we consider how few masters of theology there were in the early Church, how small was their reading public, yet how great was their influence upon the course of history, we realize that a work can, by devious ways, profoundly affect people who have never laid eyes upon it. A single book, were it greatly to influence one man in a position of authority, could thus indirectly alter the course of a nation;

But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it.

money is always important if you grow up without it.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.