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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Divine

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• The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Thinking, Remember

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• A community is like the ones who govern it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Community

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• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Water, Bird

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Leadership, Power

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Character, Easy

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

  Hypatia

  Teaching, Eternity, Made

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• You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

  George MacDonald

  People, Soul, Criticism

  George MacDonald (1878). “The Marquis of Lossie”

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• I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

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• You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Political, Prejudice

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

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• Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

  William Ellery Channing

  Kind, Surface

  William Ellery Channing (1863). “Lectures on the Elevation of the Laboring Portion of the Community”, p.15

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• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Yield

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Thinking, Vision

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• Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

  Henry George

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Henry George (1884). “Social Problems”

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• I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Numbers, People

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• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Doe, Effects

  "Ethics". Part I: Concerning God, Prop. 36, 1677.

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• The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.

  Joe Average

  Art, Creativity, Simple

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• I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

  Joe Average

  Art, Fun, Max

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• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

  Andrew Young

  Political, Saving, Use

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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