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...

The great actors always play themselves.

I am the worst influence. If you can’t handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

It’s amazing how just dressing differently can affect your influence; dress like a beggar and your assumed poverty gains you looks of contempt; dress in gold-lined robes and people are more willing to accommodate you;...

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that it isn’t deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a...

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such...

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.