Influence Quotes

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand.

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

The rhyme of the poetModulates the king's affairs.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.