Quotes About Influence

Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.

That's what hate does – it remakes us in its image.

Les psychologues et les stylistes savent de longue date que l'apparence d'une personne modèle sa perception d'elle-même. Il est ensuite facile de modifier son comportement.

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

We can't let crazy people dictate our lives.

In here you're no one, cheerleader. You remember that. You can't even walk unless I say so. If they let me, I could drain you like a bathtub and watch you die. So how about a cheer for me? Because in here, I'm the star quarterback. -Nichelle

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

As in combat, the key to this game was to get inside your opponent's decision cycle, making him react to what you were doing, rather than the reverse.

were denied direct participation in the government, forced to rely on wit and wile to influence the men who wielded raw power.

Don't trust anyone, not even your best friends. Love them, but never trust them completely. At critical times, they can be influenced to do things you don't want.

Ah," he said. "If you'd been born a man, you'd be a force to reshape the world." "Only a woman can do that.

In the words of Morelly, the author of the influential treatise Le Code de la Nature, published in 1755: The only vice which I know in the universe is avarice; all the others, whatever name one gives them, are merely forms, degrees of it. . . . Analyze vanity, conceit, pride, ambition, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, villainy; break down the majority of our sophisticated virtues themselves, [they] all dissolve in this subtle and pernicious element, the desire to possess.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.

Private discrimination also played a role, but it would have been considerably less effective had it not been embraced and reinforced by government.

The FHA favored mortgages in areas where boulevards or highways served to separate African American families from whites, stating that "[n]atural or artificially established barriers will prove effective in protecting a neighborhood and the locations within it from adverse influences, . . . includ[ing] prevention of the infiltration of . . . lower class occupancy, and inharmonious racial groups." The FHA was particularly concerned with preventing school desegregation.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.