It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excluded ...from the Booker short-list.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At this age [9ââ¬â12], in contrast to adolescence, girls still want to know their parents and hear what they think. You ...are the influential ones if you want to be. Girls, now, want to hear your point of view and find out how you got to be what you are and what you are doing. They like their fathers and mothers to be interested in what they're doing and planning. They like to know what you think of their thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all ...heroes--Moses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right tim...e in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We often overestimate the influence of a peer group on our teenager. While the peer group is most influential in matters of taste ...and preference, we parents are most influential in more abiding matters of standards, beliefs, and values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corpo...ration, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My desire is that your office [the New York Customhouse] shall be conducted on strictly business principles.... In making appointm...ents and removals of subordinates, you should be perfectly independent of mere influence. Neither my recommendation, nor that of the Secretary of the Treasury, nor the recommendation of any Member of Congress, or other influential person, should be specially regarded. Let appointments and removals be made ... by fixed rules.... Let no man be put out merely because he is a friend of the late collector [Chester A. Arthur], and no man be put in merely because he is our friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John B. Watson, the most influential child-rearing expert [of the 1920s], warned that doting mothers could retard the development ...of children,... Demonstrations of affection were therefore limited. "If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both terrorist groups and cults tend to become countercultures with their own codes of behavior into which each new recruit is ind...octrinated. The activities of both tend to be on or beyond the fringes of socially acceptable behavior. It has long been established in the study of cults that any deviant group will attract individuals who have a grievance or feeling of deprivation, provided the group offers some explanation or remedy. We have seen that the same is true of terrorist groups. Populations with similar or shared grievances or feelings of deprivation constitute a pool of possible converts. In the case of cults, it was further found that social networks--similar ethnic, social, educational, or other relationships existing before the recruitment takes place--are highly influential in determining who among the many in the pool are most likely to be among the few who are recruited. Despite the greater heterogeneity of personality types among terrorists in general, there appears to be a remarkable homogeneity in terms of social networks within specific groups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole everything follows logically: f...irst the baby, then the placenta, then, for years and years and years until death, a way of life. It is all logic, and she who lives by the hole will live also by its logic. It is, appropriately, logic with a hole in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »