There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be...

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

Coach Pearl has had a tremendous influence on me. What they’ll do is play nine guys, maybe 10. They will press full court. They’ll pick up a variety of defenses, mostly full-court man. They’ll make...

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such...

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as...

The opinion was that he was not under the influence.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole...

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism,...

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one...

We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all...

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict...

They influence our average wages.

I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic … It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine’s works in...

One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising...

Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It’s toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!

I find it disturbing that one anthropologist’s readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.[Referring to Jean La Fontaine’s 1994 research paper for the DOH]

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.

It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more...

I don’t like to think about being an influence. It’s embarrassing.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?… Can I influence governments? I am beginning to be able to…” (1995)

First LawIn every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional...

I don’t see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

It doesn’t really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

The few kids we had back, we knew they’d be solid. But could they influence the rest of the team?

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

He didn’t realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best...

Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease.

When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course...

I got to believe that the people who can really be trusted are those who have kept their promises, not under the influence of pleasing people, but under the influence of doing what they have...

Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child’s parent or grandparent.

To change one’s field of influence is to change the course of one’s life.

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY…not perfection.

You’re in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody’s as good as anybody else as long as he’s got the dough to prove it.

What happens in January isn’t going to have much influence on what happens in November.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man

We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us

I think it was a sense of being completely swallowed up by nature that gave the prairie its powerful attraction.There is nothing like it in all of Europe. Even high up on a Swiss glacier...