Deep Influence Quotes

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

You have no idea how unimportant is all that the teacher says or does not say on the surface, and how important what he himself is as teacher.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.