Influence Quotes - page 6

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour. (Joan Robinson)
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. View quote
John Polanyi
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors. View quote
Noah Webster
To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect. View quote
Dion Fortune
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence. View quote
Ringo Starr
'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently. View quote
Alan Blinder
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and lose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
I never plan a stanza, words cluster like chromosomes determining the procedure, later, I may influence or thin it. View quote
Marianne Moore
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life. (Oscar Wilde)
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. View quote
John Marshall
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. View quote
John Fletcher
Empires are synonymous with centralized-if occasionally schismatized-hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through-usually-a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser-as a rule nominally independent-power systems. In short, it's all about dominance. View quote
Iain Banks
Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment. View quote
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land-whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation. View quote
Henry Clay
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. View quote
Don Marquis
It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order. View quote
Jacques Ellul
There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state. (Jacques Ellul)
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet. View quote
Nat Turner
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us. View quote
Michael Foot
The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us. View quote
Reginald Maudling
Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. View quote
James Boswell