Best influence & loses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”

Men Trying Believe Doe Fall Loses Results Moral Roles Influence Pride Prove Authority Dominion Steam Seizing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.”

Heart Reason Earth Lasts Humanity Loses Results Taken Groups Influence Significant Resistance Bitter Technological Resisting Exaggerated Amazement Stitches Technological Change

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.”

Children Father Parent Loses Influence Involved Destruction Eras Emergence Reconstruction Visitation

Author:Warren Farrell

“One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.”

People Writing Firsts Mean Has Beens Loses Influence Example Politician Destruction Theme Domain Utopian Apolitical Public Domain

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.”

Should Loses Leader Atheism Influence Circumstances Degrees Argument Positive Atheism Dues Disappear Proof Prestige

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.”

Loses Influence Tails Discharge Dullness Torpedoes

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.”

Men World Character Found Easy Loses Principles Influence Policy Prove Superiors Selfishness Generous Sentiments Attributes Minors Chill Courtesy Exhibits Blight

Author:James F. Cooper

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans May Loses Wealth One Thing Influence Position Comfort Labor Burden Sympathy Resignation

Author:Frederic Farrar

“The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.”

Ifs World Would Be Loses Influence Dangerous Policy Possibility Active Broke Dangerous Places Unilateralism

Author:Denis Healey

“I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.”

Thinking Loses Influence Newspapers

Author:Will McDonough

“A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.”

People World Want Country Nations Loses Moral Influence Military Morality Authority Humble Factors Around The World Arrogant Be Humble

Book:Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

“It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.”

Self Actors Easy Loses Influence Possibility Self Confidence Trials Rejection

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.”

World Helping Order Loses Influence Draws Priorities Revelations Prioritize Personal Revelation

Author:Julie B. Beck

“In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.”

People Trying Lying Purpose Loses Influence Please Spheres Sphere Of Influence

Author:Epictetus

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