Quotes About Influence

If you've managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn't care. But when Newton's apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.

I could make it not matter.

The guidance of a cultured human being will always beat the click of a mouse.

Some who thus take fire burn to the day of their death, and set light to many others, leaving a trail of radiance to generations to come. Other fires sink for want of fuel, but do no harm to any. Time would discover what young Meriet's small, desperate flame portended.

Robert Beaumont, earl of Leicester

As the heart and health of the leader goes, so goes the ministry.

Your ability to influence others depends on how well you lead yourself.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

It is now no mystery that some quite influential philosophers were mentally ill.

What is achieved in blaming a man for being selfish and greedy if he acts under the influence of a social environment and education which teach him that he is an animal and that selfishness and greediness are of the essence of his nature?

He was, as one of his men put it, "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none.

just to be in his presence was an experience. It was what made Shackleton so great a leader.

Man's word is God in man.

The last great Englishman is low.

I am a part of all I have seen.

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato

Christianity is the mother of science.

The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

The dollar sign is exalted above the health sign," said Hassler, referring to the influence of the merchants on the supervisors' decision.73

European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.

For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.