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“We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.”

People Way Needs Giving Art Action Individual Belief Views Study Influence Development Capacity Ideology Sufism Right Way Sufi Beneficial Mold Individuals And Society

Author:Idries Shah

“I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.”

Thinking Men Art Use Views Influence Materials Point Of View Another Man Representing Implying

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.”

Thinking Has Beens Justice Views Issues Influence Point Of View Tendencies Unconscious Minorities Orthodox Subconscious Conform Orthodoxy Suppression Deviate

Author:William O. Douglas

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.”

Men Important Soul Heaven Social Natural Answers Interesting Views Powerful Influence Design Objects Curiosity Affection Excited Selfish Mysterious Motive Providence Permission

Author:Daniel Boone

“Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.”

Mind Understanding Views Influence Divine Intellectual Method Deeds Connected Rational Latter Providence Incapable Divine Providence

Author:Maimonides

“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.”

Moments Values Lost Views Forever Influence Judging Labour Articles Commerce Utility Bygones

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.”

Humans Political Social Views Liberty Opinion Democracy Influence Security Dignity Embrace Criticize Social Security Human Dignity

Author:Olof Palme

“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.”

Ifs Men Years Stills Play Law Force Process Views Attitude Psychology Atheism Influence Exercise Years Ago Terror Atmosphere Poison Reasoning Score Bigotry Heretic Armed Forces Invoke

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“I haven't changed my views much since I was about 12, really, I've just got a 12-year-old mentality.When I was in school I had a brother who was into Kerouac and he gave me On The Road to read when I was 12 years old. That's still been a big influence.”

Years Stills Bigs School Views Influence Havens Changed Brother Old Man Mentality I Haven't Changed

Author:David Bowie

“Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”

World Giving Trying Children Ability Views Influence Depends Ought Relate Future Happiness

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.”

“Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility.”

Way Humans Understanding Views Responsibility Influence Human Nature Treats Environmental Stewardship

Author:Ian Barbour

“I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Important Ideas Different Real Character Use Views Vision Influence Photography Cameras Visible Different Kinds Equipment Going To Work Tripods

Author:Keith Carter

“In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.”

“We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.”

Years Believe Stills States Views Influence Former Republic Soviet Head Of State

Author:Irakli Okruashvili

“What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.”

People Giving Views Taken Fate Influence Normal Determined Impression Analysis Possessed Pursued Psycho Infantile Transference

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.”

Action Belief Views Influence Window Perceive

Author:Tony Jeary

“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.”

Order Views Influence Willing Point Of View Influential

Author:Bill Crawford

“The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.”

Views Teacher Influence Teaching Best Teacher Personal Views

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.”

Views Share Influence Painting Photography

Author:Jack Welpott

“Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.”

Body Mother Views Influence Huge Daughter Treats

Author:Coco Rocha

“The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of what’s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.”

World Giving Mind Believe Views Creative Focus Influence Media Danger Negative Severe Repetition

Author:Darren Hardy

“My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in the economics profession about irrationality in decision-making, I received a lot of criticism. Ginny would support my views and remind me that a whole other profession - psychology - studies people's irrational sides.”

“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.”

Persons Made Views Influence Century Particular Serious Enormous Usa Thinker Theological Nineteenth Century Determinism

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.”

Thinking Way Different Certain Strong Views Cities Influence Personality Point Of View Designer Different Points Of View Think Different Strong Person Strong Personality

Author:Michael Bierut