#Influence

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

"One reads for oneself and for strangers."

"A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality."

"Bling"is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

"You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them."

"Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus; and we petty menWalk under his huge legs, and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves."

"All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato."

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."

"To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients."

"Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission."

"Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben."

"Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour."

"When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote."

"When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time."

"The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence."(Pr.31:8) It's not about you."