“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.” MenTwoForcePerfectQualityInfluenceExerciseElementsEternalCreatingWeaknessJewOppositionDefectsDominationUnlikelyMixturesIrresistibleMonstrousIllogicalJessicaReciprocalImpassionedShylockIrresistible Force Author:Kadmi Cohen
“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.” MenMindSpiritualEmotionQualityInfluenceHighestAppearanceOccult Author:Robert Bridges
“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.” IfsMenMaySelfCharacterHoursQualityInfluenceExamplePositionHe ManMastersExerciseDisregard Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.” ThinkingWritingEasyStuffBrainQualityCompanyGrowingTreeInfluenceExampleFindingsSellsMarketingCellsDepartmentExceptionTrendsPublishingEmphasisInkBrain CellsIllustrating Author:Jabari Asim
“By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.” StillsReasonQualityMoralInfluenceFoodUniversalFoundationCookingPropertyIncludingCulinaryPrincipalTribesBeneficialChastityTemperanceLettuce Author:John Evelyn
“While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).” HumansNamesQualityStudyInfluenceBecomingConcernFundamentalsMajorityProfoundObviousSurfaceArchitectureScreensCommandFactorsSoftwareFormatKeyboardsHardwareMenus Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.” WayFeelsMindHeartMeanHappensDifferencesQualityJourneyInfluenceEnormousRange Book:Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
“For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.” PeopleYearsQualityVirtueInfluenceHonestHabitIncreaseRelationVicesDefectsViciousInconvenienceHonest PeopleInconstancy Author:Suzanne Curchod
“The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.” PeopleFormProcessQualityInfluenceApproachAreasBasesVariousFactorsManagersOpponentsReviewsTactical Author:Brendan Rodgers
“The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.” ImportantRunningPainAbilityEffortQualityInfluenceAcceptanceCapacityExtremesFactorsFatigueWill Power Author:Jim Fixx
“It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.” MindQualityInfluenceLowsInstruments Author:Cynthia Ozick
“If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?” IfsWorldGivingDreamRealityValuesSleepQualityInfluenceActivityAbsenceAccessSuperiorsAwakeExposedInferiorsDiminishOur DreamsBeneficialOutside World Author:Erich Fromm