Influential Quotes - Page 14

• It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Powerful, Army

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• This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.

  Adyashanti

  Inspiring, Dream, Powerful

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.16, Sounds True

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• Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Coming Back, Observation

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• I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

  Wayne Dyer

  Teacher, People, Despise

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• To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.

  Ross McKitrick

  Years, Next, Climate

  "IPCC models getting mushy". business.financialpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

  Noel Gallagher

  Doe, Records, Five

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Past, Speak

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• The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Successful, Design

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• In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

  Bill Crawford

  Views, Order, Influence

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• What is written is more influential than what is said.

  James Cook

  Said, Written

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• In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Influential People

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• Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

  Pele

  Hero, Passion, Fighting

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• I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Stars, Book, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad was so influential in my career. It was a fulfillment of every athlete's dream. I dreamed about it as a kid. We played hockey in the backyard. We had silver buckets we carried around like the Stanley Cup. It was everything that you would hope.

  Matt Cullen

  Dream, Dad, Athlete

  "A conversation with Minnesota Wild center Matt Cullen". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. May 6, 2013.

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• If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Men, Self

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• In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.

  Linda Colley

  Winning, Past, Giving

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press

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• Every choice you make as an actor ends up being really influential on your life, because you're spending a lot of time working on this project, and you want to make sure you're making good choices and you're not making them for the wrong reasons. I just want to be careful and not jump into anything.

  Michael Cera

  Choices, Being Real, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Iowa, Cnn

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• The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Using People, Ideas, Political

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• Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

  Ron Atkinson

  Levels, England, Scholes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Historical, Doubt

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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Powerful, People, Focus

  "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

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• During times like these, the wise are influential.

  Joni Mitchell

  Wise, Times Like These, Politics

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.249, Omnibus Press

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• The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Approach, Aloofness

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Writing, Film, Theater

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