Quotes About Influence

Like they were puppets, and the puppeteer had sneezed.

A crowd two hundred strong was the largest animal on the face of the earth. The heaviest, the hardest to control, the hardest to stop. The hardest to kill. Big targets, but after-action reports always showed that crowds took much less than one casualty per round fired.

The fantastic cascade of bullshit coming down from senior officers with nothing better to do.

The way to take out a gang is to hit the leader first.

Because he was impressed by it

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, "Dickens didn't write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.

guy with the money stood up.

Strong cultures are vigorously and widely supported, and they are difficult to change.

They were all puppets, animated by the properties, responsibilities, and relationships they were tied to

Christianity has been a boon to mankind . . . (and) has had a beneficent effect upon the human race. . . . Most people today who live in an ostensibly Christian environment with Christian ethics do not realize how much we owe Jesus of Nazareth. . . . What goodness and mercy there is in this world has come in large measure from him. D. James Kennedy, Christian

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

It's not all what you say, it's how you say it.

All folks have a Big Ben in their brain that determines how receptive they are going to be to you and your ideas. When you mess with their internal clock, they won't listen to you. No matter how interesting your information, or how pleasant your call, bad timing means bad results for you.

Just give 'em great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze.' It's the ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody.

You see, nobody gets to the top alone. Over the years, people who seem to have it all have captured the hearts and conquered the minds of hundreds of others who helped boost them, rung by rung, to the top of whatever corporate or social ladder they chose.

Just give 'em great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze. It's the ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Nietzsche was not an Existentialist. Existentialism emerged out of the conflict between Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, the Danish religious writer.

I've not been right for any man or myself since I met you.

If your sense of humor was shaped by Looney Tunes, you're set for life.

People seemed to "decide" how much to eat based on box size as much as taste.

Langer showed again and again how the need to feel in control interferes with the accurate perception of random events.

The confirmation bias has many unfortunate consequences in the real world.