Quotes About Influence

by understanding the forces that shape coincidences, you can come to influence those forces and create your own set of meaningful coincidences, take advantage of the opportunities they present, and experience life as a constantly unfolding miracle that inspires awe in every moment. Most

When you can arrive at the point where looking and listening comes from your entire being, you are setting the stage to be an inspiring leader.

At any given moment your energy field will come into contact with and affect everyone else's energy field, and each of us responds in some way to that experience.

Genes are not the fixed, stable, immovable entities I was taught about; they are fluid and dynamic, and their activities are altered by every experience, thought, word, and action in a person's life. So, why not direct your experience to influence your genes in the most positive ways?

Now more than ever, in this age of violence and confusion, there is an urgent need for parents to take on the role of spiritual teachers to their children.

Tagore: "Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' Love said to the world, 'I am yours.' Love won.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

In all practically relevant cases, governments—or more accurately the individuals involved in governmental process—do possess the power to coerce.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.

The media will have you love people you don't even know.

The thing that [Afrikans] must remember is that everything [White people] produce has a political purpose.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.

I'm a talker, but that doesn't necessarily make a leader.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... They are the dictator inside ourselves.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.