Idealized Influence Quotes

#1. Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

Wallace Carothers

#2. Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

George Vaillant

#3. You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Kevin Rollins

#4. Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

John Portman

#5. Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert

#6. I'm not going to let you walk away thinking I didn't love every second I spent touching you. Kissing your pretty mouth.

Tessa Bailey

#7. Poetry
...
... a place for the genuine,
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise

Marianne Moore

#8. I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

Lauryn Hill

#9. dig my fingernails into my palms.

Paula Hawkins

#10. Where I live, the majority of men are married to women their own age.

Andie MacDowell

#11. When an actor doesn't face a conflict, he loses confidence in himself. I always want to have a struggle because I believe it will help me accomplish more.

John Garfield

#12. The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. I loved you both, I really did, but you can both be incredibly weak.

Anonymous

#14. India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

Clayton Christensen