Quotes About Influence

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

It's not what you take, it's what you leave.

But you will find your own way to make an impact.

Lucrul de care mi-am dat seama este ca nu conteaza ce iei, ci ce lasi.

the thing i realize is that it is not what you take, it is what you leave

who remains a wise mentor and cherished friend.

Thanks most of all to my beautiful mother and fellow author, Penelope Niven, who made the world lovelier just by being in it.