Invisible Influence Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

We leave traces with our energy and vibrations. We leave something of ourselves behind everywhere were we pass. This is what always fascinates and inspires me.

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.

There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic.

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.