Quotes About Influence

son los destinos individuales los que trazan el devenir de los grandes acontecimientos.

Dicen que los poetas y los intelectuales son los mejores terroristas

uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos

If we can't control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven't recognized?

There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....

Most researchers are quick to point out that the biologically oriented studies suggest that genetics can influence people, and with this Scripture has no dispute. People can be physiologically predisposed to enjoying a particular drug, food, activity, or physical experience, but there is a categorical difference between being influenced by genetics and being determined by it.

We are connected to things that have been forced on us, such as the sins of others

I owe Oprah and that show a tremendous debt.

I am too easily swayed by every story I hear, or see, or witness, especially the tragic ones," she said. "I think this is going to be the story of my life. I'm going to be the girl who is too easily swayed by other people's stories.

The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always spend too much time chasing a shadow they can never reach… San manman, motherless, was the way you described someone who was lost, brutal and cruel. Fantom, ghost, was another. People without mothers, it was believed, were capable of anything.

There are always three factors involved in survival, no matter how toxic the environment. One is the physical reality; the second is dumb luck; and the third is the response of the organism, which can often modify the influence of the first two. The relationship of these three factors can be imagined as dials on an amplifier, with survival depending on the overall mix.

Daniel Kahneman astutely observed, "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

those who lack self-definition, whether they are children, marriage partners, employees, clients, therapists, or supervisors, will always perceive those who are well-defined to be "headstrong.

Sabotage is not merely something to be avoided or wished away; instead, it comes with the territory of leading, whether the "territory" is a family or an organization

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

It requires conducive social conditions, rather than monstrous people, to produce heinous deeds.

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.