Best results & influence 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

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.”

Important Action Simple Results Environment Influence Crime Murder Complexes Commit Genes Interaction Our Actions Triggers

Author:William Landay

“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.”

May Two Values Culture Results Practice Influence Example Habit Exercise Patterns Desirable Undesirable Two Cultures

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.”

Art Seems Eye Law Purpose Results Influence Effects Flow Perfection Productions Employment Excellent Scope Spectators Comprehensive Concealed Purpose Of Art

Book:The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life

Source: The Book of Nature: From the Last London Ed., to which is Now Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life

“Plato says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.”

Philosophy Results Influence Multitudes Plato Attempting Seriousness Prostitution

Author:Allan Bloom

“I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.”

May Use Results Creative Influence Creating Theme Celtic Springboards

Author:Loreena McKennitt

“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

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

May Stills Shows Natural Levels Results Teacher Influence Teaching Capacity Accounts Raises Developing Decline Pupils Good Teacher

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.”

Men States Whole Order Force Results Influence Perfection Police Structure Transitory Forces Of Nature Police Power

Author:Jacques Ellul

“In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.”

People Years Lasts Results Influence Position Unheard Misused

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence”

Long Term Results Influence Long Term Concrete Phases Cognitive Cognitive Science Cybernetics

Book:The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Source: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

“The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.”

“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”

Inspiration Passion Results Team Influence Inspire Impact Customers Titles Mates Designation Team Mate

Author:Robin Sharma

“Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.”

Ideas Real Results Influence Style Products Development Diversity Cultural Diversity Interchange

Author:Tyler Cowen

“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?”

Ifs Mind Form Results Beauty Moral Influence Effects Industry Morality Reflection Fairs Senses Contemplation Delightful

Author:David Hume

“To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.”

Giving Christian Religious Results Influence Teaching Dangerous Importance Tendencies Curious Paganism

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.”

May Certain Results Existence Taken Influence Produce Higher Accounts Importance Finite Magnitude

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.”

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