Quotes About Influence

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

To all the usual folks: Mom, Sally, Nik, Russell, the DFWWW, my agent, my editor, Orbit Books, the people who buy the books, Optimus Prime, and the rest. You're still just as important as you ever were and this is a lot easier because of you. To Atomic Robo, for keeping my love of comic books alive and well. And to Victor Von Doom.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

Max said little. His essential quality was always to say little, but by powerful empathy for writers and for books to draw out of them what they had it in them to say and to write.

America is Europe's greatest invention.

Islands prove, I think, that geography makes people what they are.

There are celebrities in New York that no one's heard of in New Jersey. It is interested and influenced by itself.

The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view. It destroys the purity of their world.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment — and nothing more corrupting.

Rappelez-vous que ce qu'on appelle une faible volonté est habituellement un signe de manque d'intérêt. La personne faible qui est facilement persuadée de jouer au tennis quand elle n'en a aucun désir est une personne qui n'a aucune idée de ce qui l'intéresse réellement. Un système disciplinaire encourage une telle personne à rester faible de volonté et futile. (p. 432)

It is undoubtedly contagious to breathe the same air as diseased persons, and to be within the circle of attraction and expansion which surrounds the wicked.

La Maîtrise de soi-même. »

Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme.

Toute pensée occupant uniquement notre esprit devient vraie pour nous et a tendance à se transformer en acte. - Any thought that occupies our mind becomes true for us and tends to turn into action.

Ainsi entendue, l'autosuggestion n'est autre chose que l'hypnotisme tel que je le comprends et que je définis par ces simples mots : Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme. - Understood thus, autosuggestion is nothing other than hypnotism as I understand it and which I define by these simple words: Influence of the imagination on the moral being and the physical being of man.

Il est à noter que le propre des idées autosuggérées est d'exister en nous à notre insu et que nous ne pouvons savoir qu'elles y existent que par les effets qu'elles produisent.) - It should be noted that the characteristic of autosuggested ideas is to exist in us without our knowledge; and that we can only know that they exist there by the effects they produce.