Quotes About Influence

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

Vance merely echoed the rush of her vital personality.

He is Fright!" she said in an awed whisper. "But never talk about him again unless you can help it; he always knows when he's being talked about, and he liked it, because it gives him more power.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

The eeriness of this lonely island, set among a million willows, swept by a hurricane, and surrounded by hurrying deep waters, touched us both, I fancy. Untrodden by man, almost unknown to man, it lay there beneath the moon, remote from human influence, on the frontier of another world, an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows. And we, in our rashness, had dared to invade it, even to make use of it!

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them.

Socialize with people in such a manner that when you die, they should weep for you, and as long as you live, they should long for your company.

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you'd made, as if the thing you'd made became you.

The power of the lie, Daniel said. Always seductive to the powerless.

She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.

Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?

No art has ever really changed anything.

The Essentials of English, book of choice of the older boys at St. Faith's for spanking the younger boys with, leaving a particular broad-natured pain ever afterwards associated with grammar.

People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.

If people think you like them, Charlotte said, well, it can go either way. There's a lot of powerplay in liking and being liked. Such a powerful connection, it's a chance to make the world bigger for someone else. Or smaller. That's always a chance we've got.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents—our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.

The others adapted, for nothing quelled a revolution more quickly—wrote Pauline Schulz—than the prevailing powers inviting it in for drinks.

Ultimately, brands are built by people who passionately believe in their brands. Indeed, many of the world's best brands can be linked to a single person: Howard Schultz created Starbucks, Steve Jobs built Apple, Pleasant Roland formed American Girl, Richard Branson developed Virgin, and Phil Knight was the driving force behind Nike. Brand builders understand and believe in the power of brands.     Tim

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.