Quotes About Influence

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

The very idea of wagon travel across the plains might have been indefinitely delayed had it not been for Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, a dreamy but persistent evangelist from the Finger Lakes of New York, who in 1836 became the first white woman to cross the Rockies. Narcissa Whitman is largely forgotten today, but her impact on American history was enormous, and for a time she was one of the most famous women in antebellum America.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Even if we are all products of the cultural blender, each mixture of influences, vocabularies, memories, orientations, and temperament possesses a distinct and unmistakable flavor. We make ourselves out of the models we encounter; we give ourselves a form through the different ways we inhabit other forms. And we bring these differences to the event of reading, even as we are reoriented— sometimes subtly, sometimes significantly— by the sum of what we read.

Le donne che hanno cambiato il mondo non hanno mai sentito il bisogno di mostrare nulla se non la loro intelligenza

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.

Today we're going to be like the earth, spinning around and affecting many.

Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en el mar de porquería de los medios de comunicación monopolizados por la iniciativa privada.

Es curioso que la iglesia católica aliada de Hitler, de Franco, inventora de las cruzadas y de la Inquisición, protectora de los peores dictadores, grite que sin la religión, el mundo estaría peor.

And keep one thing in mind-tanks and guns can break my bones, but emails can be deleted.

Be the person people remember because you made them feel special.

People who create change, change the future for others. Therefore, if you remain idle, the future will control how you change.

Seduction is a magical art form that women use to conquer men.

Your legacy among family and friends shall resemble a blank page while you remain silent when others threaten our constitutional values.

Your presence has no meaning when your absence doesn't alter their life.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It's Sid & Nancy meets All the President's Men.

End with a Call to Action A persuasive book description should finish with a bang, rather than a whimper. Tell the reader to buy your book. You may think this step is a crass or unnecessary, but nothing could be further from the truth. Never forget how easy it is for a shopper on Amazon to leave your book page and buy a different book instead.

Extreme emotion destroys wealth. Anything that you are infatuated with, or resent, rules you. If you get elated or depressed, the emotions rule you. It's smart to have strategies that override extreme emotions. Money is made, grown and given from strategies, not emotions. Many people will tell you that the purpose of life is happiness, but in the extreme, happiness is an emotion and will cost you money. Polarized emotions, at either extreme, cost you money.

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão derrotaria um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha". Hooyah.