Quotes About Influence

All power is from within and therefore under our control

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

When you're living with a mob of other people, it's hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain't YOU no more.

Tigers breed tigers. A candy-assed commander will have few tigers working for him. Each makes the other uncomfortable.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy

Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia's partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia

Maps, in other words, can be dangerous tools. And yet they are crucial to any understanding of world politics.

Russia does not require an invasion, only a zone of influence in the Intermarium that it can achieve by gradually compromising the democratic vitality of rimland states. (Hungary, in particular, is well on its way in this regard.)

Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

More plausible suspects in our mystery are the things that students collectively bring with them to school, ranging from(on the positive side of the ledger) academic encouragement at home and private funding for "extras" to (on the negative side) crime, drugs, and disorder. Whom you go to school with matters a lot.

Neighborhood affluence and poverty have been shown repeatedly to influence many aspects of child and youth development, even after taking into account the characteristics of kids and their immediate families.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.

I realized Ernie was my guardian angel and had been since that first day on the playground.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

We believe we choose the paths we take when we come to those forks in our lives—the friends we make, the careers we undertake, the spouses we marry. But we don't.

We can't always control the outcomes, but we can control what we do.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone. Really it is a question of which generation we are living for.

The government often does too much. Many government programs and policies designed to help the private sector actually impede its development. The major reasons are the low level of ability or competence in most government institutions, the high level of corruption, and the influence of special interest groups.

if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself.

Meek—free from the addiction to ordinary power—you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.