Quotes About Influence

Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced.

If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

And insofar as we travel in search of beauty, works of art may in small ways start to influence where we would like to travel to.

The news has the ability to define the agenda by leading the attention of an audience to what it believes to be the issues of importance.

Children are always described from a third-person perspective ("Isn't Chloe a cute/ugly/intelligent/stupid kid?") before they gain the ability to influence their own definitions. Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others. But the struggle against distortion continues beyond childhood.

I would have thought, said the prime minister, that Your Majesty was above literature. Above literature? said the Queen. Who is above literature? You might as well say one is above humanity.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of actions. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad', and if you're planning on writing that's probably a good thing. But if you are planning on writing and they haven't fucked you up, well, you've got nothing to go on, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

I am the King. I tell. I am not told. I am the verb, sir. I am not the object. (King George III)

Del resto i libri, come certo saprà, è raro che inducano ad agire. In genere confermano solo quello che, magari inconsapevolmente, si è già deciso di fare. Si ricorre ad un libro per avere conferma delle proprie convinzioni. In altri termini per chiudere un capitolo.

Larkin says that they fuck you up, your mum and dad. And if you end up writing, then that's fine because if they have, then you've got something to write about. But if they haven't fucked you up, you don't have anything to write about, so then they've fucked you up good and proper.

No, in the end what persuaded me was simply Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that he had asked me. My father would have made such a decision on his own and only informed my mother after the fact. That Jae-sun sought my opinion—my consent—meant more to me than I could say. And because of that, I could not gainsay him this job.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

Life does not control you. What you believe about it, does.

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either permit it or they do not.

What happens to you happens from you.

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza

And, finally, how others respond to us—particularly people we are close to—shapes the direction of our emotion in very important ways. Certain responses, such as understanding and validating our experience, soothe our frayed emotional edges, but others, such as criticizing or invalidating our experience, are like salt in an open wound in our hearts.

But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold

Wesleyanism was at its most influential when it was a people movement that was reproducing like mad. It