Be Informed Not Influenced Quotes

#1. When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.

Alanis Morissette

#2. This all means that we are not rational (in the traditional sense), not fully informed, we are influenced by others, and our choices are not purely conscious.

Thomas Zoega Ramsoy

#3. When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

Riaad Moosa

#4. All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Jim Butcher

#6. Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Stephen King

#7. When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

Big Bill Broonzy

#8. Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

Diablo Cody

#9. Basic understanding of who were are is through Self Awareness. By understanding our thoughts we can dive deeper into them and get a better understanding of who we are in the process.

Matthew Donnelly

#10. Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

Charles Babbage

#11. And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Iris Dement