Quotes About Influence

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

Church and family are both primary influences designed by God for a purpose and when they work together, they are orange. Both are systems comprised of imperfect people—that's why God desires to use them as a platform to tell his story of restoration and redemption to the world.

Our fights should really be for the mission of the church and the mission of the family instead of trying to have bigger churches or better families. When it comes to entities that god has created specifically to make disciples and accomplish His mission (of influencing a generation to have a stronger, deeper, and more authentic relationship with God), there is the church...the family...and nothing else.

If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

No one has more potential to influence your child than you.

YOU CAN SHAPE A KID'S FAITH BY CONNECTING THEM TO CARING ADULTS WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN THEIR LIFE.

Sometimes, we forget the essence of parenting is really about nurturing critical connections that affect every child's future.

You are the leader. You can't do away with tension. You can manage it.

In everyone's story of faith, there are people who have shown up and become catalysts for their spiritual growth. Think about it. If you are reading this right now, chances are you believe what you believe and you do what you do because of the way someone influenced your faith.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

We all march to the drum,"she murmured."However we are raised, however we are trained, it never seems to leave us. Do you think we can break free?" . . . "We can all learn,"he answered."All grow and change. That choice is ours to make.

Twelve strangers," he interrupted, "twelve citizens picked off the street. In this world we're unfortunate to live in, and especially in this septic isle we live on,where squalid politicians conspire with the squalid press to feed a half-educated and wholly complacent public on a diet of meretricious trivia, I'm sure it would be possible to concoct enough evidence to persuade twelve strangers that Nelson Mandela was a cannibal.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

gouverner l esprit des autres, et non faire le salut de son âme, ni rechercher le vrai ou le beau.

Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales.

Every idea that is articulated becomes a political idea because it is always objectified within an existing community.

Each life is a history of affinities through which we find ourselves and are "defined" by others.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.