Quotes About Influence

I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proof.

celui qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égard ni patience

Entre les deux coups de feu qui décidèrent de son destin, il eut le temps d'appeler une mouche : Madame.

Celui qui vient au monde sans rien troubler, ne mérite ni égards, ni patience.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

If the desire of children were not mimetic, if they did not of necessity choose for models the human beings who surround them, humanity would have neither language nor culture.

A person] will desire any object so long as he is convinced that it is desired by another person whom he admires.

This 'specialization', arising from an analytical attitude of mind, has been pushed to such a point that those who have undergone its influence are incapable of conceiving of a science that deals with nature in its entirety.

Pour répondre à cette question, nous rappellerons que l'initiation est essentiellement une transmission, et nous ajouterons que ceci peut s'entendre en deux sens différents : d'une part, transmission d'une influence spirituelle, et, d'autre part, transmission d'un enseignement traditionnel. [...]

dans la tradition hindoue, le mantra qui a été appris autrement que de la bouche d'un guru autorisé est sans aucun effet, parce qu'il n'est pas « vivifié » par la présence de l'influence spirituelle dont il est uniquement destiné à être le véhicule. Ceci s'étend d'ailleurs, à un degré ou à un autre, à tout ce à quoi attachée une influence spirituelle.

Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree— those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.

Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next think you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many ways in which a soprano relies upon the guidance of a conductor, and not all of them are confined to the stage. As a result of dropping the most powerful name in Russian music today, I got a window and a view.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across. But fiction can always accomplish something that visual media will never be able to match. ... One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows for the expression of unexpressed thoughts: interior monologue.

People, including those who love us, only do what we allow them to do. They only suck up the energy we give.

Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.