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...

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist’s responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of...

Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before...

You may cry out tears for misplacing your money, but you got to cry out blood if you have misplaced your dreams. Sadly, you may not even know the great deal of influence you loss...

Don’t be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth.

I’m perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

You can’t change nature, son!””Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

influence an event by bad news is much more quick when it is out of any possibilities

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange...

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how...

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

The CPI will still have an influence on the Fed meeting, … You are in a bear market in technology stocks and you’ll have to accept that. You’re not going to get anything significant until...

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.