Quotes About Influence

before i die i want to matter

You have been in every way all that anyone could be. . . . If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

Yang penting bukan apa yang kauambil, melainkan apa yang kautinggalkan.

a 1,257 ft bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Genes are deterministic but they are not destiny.

Bruno Bettelheim, who might have had more influence if he weren't, as Dr. Spock himself noted, a "[v]ery frightening" figure who "scared the hell out of people." A Holocaust survivor with a heavy accent, a stern manner, and some outlandish ideas, Bettelheim gave people the creeps, and after his suicide in 1990, we'd learn there was good reason: his credentials were faked

The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.

When I pointed out this fallacy in her thought process, however, all she said was, "Just do it," only not the way they say it in Nike ads. She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too.

A nice manner and a level head would surely get you much further. But that didn't cut much with the big cheeses, who liked flakey mission statements and loud, confident remarks.

Le charme, c'est juste un moyen pour les connards de vous faire faire ce qu'ils veulent.

Charm is just a way of fuckers getting you to do what they wanted you to do all along. They might as well hold a gun to your head. They're both shortcuts.

But when you read a book, you feel like you're in it.

there's no better way to make history disappear than to unleash money, money roaming free has a worse bite than an attack dog, it can effortlessly bite an entire building out of existence

A girl's relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.

I don't know if i'll ever get you out of my system, not completely. I have… this feeling. That you'll always be there. Here.

He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.

I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

So that's where I get it from. My dad. He lives in a fantasy world.

And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.

It was turning it into a secret that gave it power.

Even though Margot is only two years older than me, I look up to her more than anybody.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are