…story is a powerful stimulant with tremendous influence over how we think and act. Like meth, only safer.
– Kathleen Smith
Related Quotes:
- It’s safer for you to stay with the others,’ he said.Safer? He didn’t realize.I was already dead. – Ruta Sepetys
- Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. – Peter Bogdanovich
- You can influence a whole plethora of things, and just as they can influence you then you can influence them. – Stephen Richards
- Fear is a powerful stimulant. – Margaret Atwood
- Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. – Nick Hornby
- I don’t make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff. – SA Tawks
- Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined. – Michelle Templet
- There is an inner beauty and outer beauty. Both have tremendous influence. – Tanya R Liverman
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. – Radhe Maa
- Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego while appreciation touches the soul. – Debasish Mridha
- Ah, lust. It makes us forget anything we want to. The greatest relaxant, the greatest stimulant. – James Lusarde
- The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned. – David Brooks
- Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad or a stimulant – John Steinbeck
- A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life. – Roy Bennett
- True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly. – Orrin Woodward
- Since you can’t be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence. – Anyaele Sam Chiyson
- The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
- To take the world into one’s arms and act towards it in a soul-filled and soul-strengthening manner is a powerful act of wildish spirit. – Clarissa Pinkola Ests
- Your past is your story. Your story is your most powerful asset. Embrace it. – Sarah Centrella
- If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid. – Rand Miller
- Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us. – Vironika Tugaleva
- Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem … – Aldous Huxley
- The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story. – Melissa Broder
- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life. – John Patrick Hickey
- All human beings wield influence-”a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell
- For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present. – Daniel Egger
- Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that? – Neila Rey