You must stand firm if you wish to lead the firm

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

God determine the appointed time and boundaries of influence for every man.

What gets recognized gets repeated; what gets celebrated becomes a habit. Individual recognition and group celebration fuel high performance. Make an effort to compliment people doing something right. There’s nothing more fun than celebrating success.

In 1996, when we were looking at our general plan, we decided our sphere of influence will include land we would annex within 20 years. This is in our sphere of influence. If we didn’t...

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His...

No, it’s this decade, the one we’re living in. It’s the only thing that can influence you.

The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love.

We don’t have that much influence over Chinese oil interests. We’re watching. That’s about all we can do.

Author describes one monarch’s impressive table but conveys a contemporary’s observation, “the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation”.

{When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine’s deism; a political associate, Samuel Hill, burned it to save Lincoln’s political career. Historian Roy Basler, the editor of...

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

{Colonel Carr’s testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the kindest and gentlest and most considerate and loving man I ever knew. His was a nature...

The yen has been a definite influence on Asian currencies. Korea definitely has one eye on the yen. I suspect Korea would hope the yen would move more than the won.

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it’s vital to question ourselves:...

It is because of the Biblical curse on man’s search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages, and its detrimental effect upon progress, that makes the Bible the most wicked,...

Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and...

You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.

We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

I have always believed in the power of collaboration. Early on in my professional career, I realized that you can’t develop all the competencies you need fast enough on your own. Furthermore, if you don’t...

He was easily my biggest influence no one is even close. He was a Canadian guy who played at St. Mike’s, and for Canada’s national team and he played pro. He knows the game. He...

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.

Make good choices. The environment in which you dwell can have a high influence on what you will achieve. Friends you associate yourself with have the potential to reduce or upgrade your brand. What you...

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don’t know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is...

In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of...

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

For the first time ever we sympathized with the President because we saw how wildly our sphere of influence was misrepresented by those in no position to know what was going on.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

In my experience, influence is power.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

The chief justice has unique power and influence as the nation’s highest-ranking judge,

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are...

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then...

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don’t produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during...

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Extinction is established when people only choose to exist without living

We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

Today I am in love. Today is Tuesday, although the day of the week has no influence or impact on the fact that I’m in love. It could be Monday and I’d still be in...

I have always been interested in this man. My father had a set of Tom Paine’s books on the shelf at home. I must have opened the covers about the time I was 13. And...

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.