Quotes About Influence

How influential was Paul Sachs? Because he was short, about five foot two, he hung paintings low on the wall. When American museums rose to prominence after the war, many of the directors hung their paintings lower than their counterparts in Europe. Sachs's students had simply accepted it as the norm, and the other museums followed their lead.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

the youth movements could not separate religious formation from political formation

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Thought can be controlled and manipulated, but emotion is willful and unpredictable.

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

They hire smart attorneys and accountants, and persuade politicians to change laws or create legal loopholes.

America today is less a democracy and more an oligarchy.

Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes." ? Joseph Stalin

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. — Albert Einstein

Our thinking has many sources.

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts

Permitting businesses and special interests to fund political campaigns encourages demagoguery and invites corruption. That is not government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It's government of, by, and for money.

Money rules the world, and doubtless also, here and there, the bit of love within it, and when love turns to hate, one remembers unpaid board.

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

We grasp one thing after another, and when we have grasped a thing, it is as if it possessed us. Not we possess it, but the opposite: whatever we have apparently acquired rules over us then. It is impressed upon us that a beneficent effect is to be had from acquiring a little that is firm and definite, that is to say, from growing accustomed and shaping oneself to laws and commands that prescribe a strict external discipline. Perhaps we're being stupefied, certainly we're being made small.