Influence Quotes - Page 34

• The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.

  Deepak Chopra

  Body

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• Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise the authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power, or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain and, by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields of the daily you give me to plow.

  Ted Loder

  Honesty, Exercise, Giving

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• The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Feelings, Mind, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.174, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Nature, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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• Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Made, Succession

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

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• If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

  Mason Cooley

  Power, Hem, Constraints

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• Never mistake the power of influence

  Jim Rohn

  Mistake

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• Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

  Wilkie Collins

  Country, Depressing, Eye

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.432, 谷月社

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• Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Baseball, Father, School

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• Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

  Herbie Hancock

  Oscars, Today, Jazz

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• Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Choices, Climate

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• The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Constitution, Degrading, Tenure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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• The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Creativity, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Study, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Believe, Office

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Space

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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• I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

  George Etherege

  Heart, Air, Helping

  1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.

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• We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Sympathy, Men, Comfort

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• ...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Mother, Disappointment, School

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• Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

  Capers Jones

  Schedules, Irrational, Software

  Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

  Norm MacDonald

  Passion, Soul, Relaxation

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