The very essence of all power to influen... by Harry Allen Overstreet | We Heart Quotes

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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Time, the devourer of everything.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

BOOKSIf minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of its futures. To read books is one way of growing along with one’s fellows-in-growth.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

- Harry Allen Overstreet

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