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Influence Quotes
"I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world."
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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."
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"Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something."
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"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."
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"Being with you makes people desire what you represent."
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"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
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"There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am."
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"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today."
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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."
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"Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so."
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"For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location."
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"Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'."
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"I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence."
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"You are the most influential person you will talk to all day."
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"A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
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"We influence singing but never really songwriting."
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"Fear and anger, the two emotions that most people came to him to reduce - emotions that he'd worked so hard to overcome in his own life - were fuel for politicians. Maybe candidates and congressmen thought that sowing discord among countrymen, even family members, was an unfortunate type of collateral damage. Maybe they didn't think about it at all."
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"If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy."
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"In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited twenty times is more influential than an author who has an h-index = 3 obtained on the basis of three published papers of which each is cited three times."
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
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"If the people you talk to on a daily basis are not the ones living your life dealing with your daily obstacles, are not uplifting for your well being then why should you buy into their opinion?"
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"By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence."
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"To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."
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"Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it's best to keep your tally down."
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"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
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"We convince by our presence."
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"As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched."
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"He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune."
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"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
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"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."
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