Influence Quotes

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

~ Steve Knox

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.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

~ C. Terry Warner

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

~ Alexandra Robbins

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, in particular the freedom to believe what you will in private. But secularism also poses a public problem. There are those whose beliefs are so different from others’ beliefs that finding common ground in the public space is impossible. And then there are those for whom the very distinction between private and public is either meaningless or unacceptable. The complex contrivances of secularism have their charm, but not everyone is charmed.

~ George Friedman

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

~ Thomas Hughes

Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.

~ Shahla Khan

Psychology of small things rules.

~ Stefan Fatsis

Jesus was sent to love, so He loved and through this example we ourselves should exemplify love also.

~ Pauline Seaport

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.

~ Stefan Fatsis

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

~ Patrick O'brian

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...

~ Debolina Bhawal

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

~ Pam Farrel

The great actors always play themselves.

~ Scott Farris

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

~ Robert A. Caro

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

~ Brooke Hauser

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

~ Scott Farris

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

~ Don Marquis

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

~ Ray Bradbury

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.

~ David R. Stoddart

The have influence, but no power.In my experience, influence is power.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

~ August Krogh

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

~ Charles Darwin

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

~ Bertrand Russell

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

~ David Halberstam

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 intelligence to camouflage deficiencies in academic excellence. In short, our intellectuals are torn by the dilemma whether they ought to carry their brains in their mouths, or mouths in their brains.

~ Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.

~ Alyssa Keller

In my experience, influence is power.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

~ Walter Isaacson

If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little use to those who desperately need it.

~ Matthew Lee Anderson

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

~ John C. Maxwell

Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

~ Phil Cooke

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

~ Thomas Hardy

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 careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

~ Alain De Botton

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

~ Thomas Hughes

...you influenced me, in a way in which no one else did.

~ Michael Kelahan

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to remain.I believe that this wise and blessed frame of mind would have continued with me, had it not been for the unsolicited and uncharitable remarks obtruded upon me by my professional friends who visited the rooms. But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

~ Herman Melville