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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Beatrix Potter (1982). “Beatrix Potter's Americans: selected letters”

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

"Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.153, Stanford University Press

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.60

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

Peter Brook (1996). “The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.83, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

"Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.