Quotes about Influence
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
- Octavia Butler
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
- Og Mandino
In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind — that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality — its inexpressibility.
- Olga Tokarczuk
One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading
- Olga Tokarczuk
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.