…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to ‘be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on...

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

The increasingly active diplomatic maneuvers have made unprecedented contribution to China`s rising influence in today`s world,

You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe,...

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe’s)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be...

Children, the life is more than meat. Consider the lilies, how beautiful they grow.” It certainly seemed worth while then just to be sweet, for it pleased the Master.

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I don’t think this result will influence what happens on Wednesday, but I am not going to deny that the squad will have lost a little self-belief.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme.” Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people....

stricter standards applied to those who influence impressionable young people.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

Last year set a new kind of standard, … I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

A true leader is still a leader even when he takes up servants’ duty, provided he maintains a human face and added integrity to his self-retained qualities.

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

Don’t let others influence your life… make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self…. That’s lesson for self… learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life…

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One.

There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile…and they will make...

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the...

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one’s soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one’s...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects...

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

I don’t think they’ll have much of an influence. If anything [the numbers] show housing isn’t yet reacting to higher interest rates.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the...

You cannot deny that the influence of money and lobbying on this town has gotten progressively worse over the last several years.

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of existence; you stir up waves that break upon the shores of eternity itself. And it is of much...

If I saw you hitchhiking, I’d smile and return your thumb’s up, just for you doing such a great job of being a positive roadside influence.

You are either a player or a spectator! Players influence the game while spectators watch them to do it. Such is life!

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music’s unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

I’ve been playing for nine years. My brother started two years before me so that had some influence. I also wanted to try new things and found what he did looked interesting and brought me...

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section flaunts academic achievements to make up for shortfalls in intelligence. The other asserts...

Most people don’t accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.

I can’t think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to...