There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I think The Weeknd is an incredible melodically driven artist. People often say to me that he sounds a lot like what… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy - it is already too late for that… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible. — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image
People are very surprised to hear me say that a lot of my values are Christian values. I think that's part of… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean,… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay,… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears… — Sami Michael Copy Share Image
For the United States, our political system is clearly distorted. We have gerrymandering so that there is a situation where a million… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know,… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring.… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Your influence and remuneration is directly proportionate to your film's success. So in that sense, Bollywood is a level playing field. If… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
You can't always choose who comes into your life but you can learn what lesson they teach you. — Cv Pillay Copy Share Image
Women are like internet viruses they enter your life, scan your pocket, edit your mind, download their problems, delete your smile... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, feverish loyalty… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
It's a common notion that if you like Tagore, then he must have had an influence on your life. While I like… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence. — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
You were born with the ability to change someone's life, don't waste it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
