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influences

«Behavior, cognitive, and other personal factors, and environmental influences all operate interactively as determinants of each other.»
«A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.»
«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
«Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking»
«Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.»
«Bondage is...subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.»
«Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? / Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? / Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? / Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? / Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? / Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? / Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, / When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? / Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, / When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? / Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.»
«America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences»
«He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Passion | Keywords: external, influences
«Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.»

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