Quotes About Influence

Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, "What kind of legacy will you leave?

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

There is nothing more restless than men in power.

Today, there are probably more Marxists on the faculty of our elite colleges than there are in all of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Very interestingly do the four Tarot cards assigned to Netzach reveal the nature of the Venusian influence as it comes, down the planes. They teach us a very important lesson, for they show how essentially unstable this force is unless it is rooted in spiritual principle. The lower forms of love are of the emotions, and essentially unreliable; but the higher love is dynamic and energising.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

You must: Learn to understand what motivates the people you want to influence. Become an expert at communication. Know how to make people like you. Learn how to inspire people.

If you don't have a bold and enthusiastic buoyant presence, you won't have any influence.

We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time - because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it.

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

The needle that had made one the property of the child made the other the property of no man.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

Stravinsky is one of the greatest composers of our time and I truly love many of his works. (...) The marvellous composer has invariably been at the centre of my attention, and I not only studied and listened to his music, but I played it and made my own transcriptions as well.

What galls me is that these sadists always have fans and followers-- and sincere ones at that. The typical example of this is Toscanini.

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