“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything.
If you let others influence you, they will also let you influence them. But if you're only trying to teach them something, and put your ideas into people's brains, you will never succeed.
“We have evidence that the compounds protect against Alzheimer's by influencing the early gene expression in learning and memory, which influences cell signaling pathways that help neuronal cells communicate with each other.”
“I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.”
A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
“In essence what we're doing is taking the folks who would have formerly been called sporadic (environmental), and testing how important genetic influences are...and we're finding genetic influences are tremendously important.”
“It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outsourcing or through its software technology. If India is going to influence the world, it will be through a cultural invasion, a cultural colonization.”
“The only question was whether the juror had been influenced, biased or prejudiced by a reference to her father. You want to make sure anytime there's a personal reference to a juror that they're not influenced in any way.”