Mutual Influence Quotes

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.

I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other?...In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.