Influence Quotes - Page 30

• What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Benefits

  Faith and Reason - PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• It has become harder and harder in the United States to make films unhampered by outside influences. I've always been able to steer clear of that and keep the business people out of my hair completely.

  Woody Allen

  Hair, People, Able

  "Woody Allen Discusses "Match Point"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. December 20, 2005.

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• When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Doctors, Cells, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Beautiful, Morning, Stress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world.

  RZA

  Book, Gita, World

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Sound, Inspired

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.

  Mose Allison

  Daughter, Style, Age

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.

  Wes Anderson

  Crazy, Thinking, Tvs

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2007.

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• Those who give up on their dreams shouldn't influence you to give up on yours.

  Rita Zahara

  Dream, Giving Up, Giving

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• To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Development, Environment

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• In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Judgement, News

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.100, Stanford University Press

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• When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ideas, Soul, Doe

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• If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Principles, Moral

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

  Frances Wright

  Ignorance, Race, Evil

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Moon, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Opposites, Would Be

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• Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Men, Blow

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• I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Generations, Peril, Labor

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin

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• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Home, America

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• The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Dad, Character

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

  James Joyce

  Men, Race, Illustration

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• ... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Art, Thinking, Hands

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• Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  America, Gathering, Crossroads

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• It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.

  John Dos Passos

  Attitude, Party, Believe

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