There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story.People, who influence, who possess the drift, the...

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

There’s just no way that the modern canvassing board in Pinellas County can influence an election. It’s just about impossible.

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

The Wrods We Sepak Ifnlucne Waht We See Ifnlucne The Atconis We Tkae Gvies Us The Rseluts We Get…The Words We Speak Influence What We See Influences The Actions We Take Gives Us The Results...

God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

A little bit of an influence is there, but we don’t sound like Alice in Chains, … We’re influenced and don’t lie about it, but everyone is compared to someone.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a...

To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to...

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others – status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present...

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany’s)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!””So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving...

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Wouldn’t the world be a much better place if we didn’t make it past the age of maybe 10? Think back to when we were younger, before we were so easily influenced by adults. We...

American influence is not what it used to be.

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

On Andrew Jackson: “His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

Real men don’t dance to other people’s tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends,...

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you.

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

To have a positive influence on someone’s life is a blessing.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil...

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

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears – a mythology he cannot inherit.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

Honour comes and goes, influence comes and stays, but none of them safeguards us against danger than the mentor of true leadership; Jesus Christ!

My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything – riffs, energy – but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to...

Love rules the world. Like a tyrant.

What you’re seeing here is what happens when a pharmaceutical industry, through lobbying and campaign contributions and influence buying, gets a program that it wants. What the industry lobbied against was any type of uniform...

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a ‘paper millionaire’, but by being a ‘people millionaire’.

Don’t be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

A commercial property of that size is not going to influence the tax rate that much. Out here, commercial property doesn’t play that big a role.

You look at the way that Joe has that team playing and you know what his influence is. They fight and work and make you earn everything that you get.

The problem will occur if judges are not able to insulate the tribunal against that influence, … If they are unable to do that, then there are going to be serious questions about the tribunal’s...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery,...

To live a sinless life is good, but if you live in a cave and positively influence nobody, you may not have harmed anyone, but since you added no value to life, are you really...

The main reason why your company can easily influence you is because “emotion and attitude are stronger than knowledge”. What you see can overcome what you know. You can easily damp away what you already...

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion;...

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen—interpret, process, and...

Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.