Quotes About Influence

The only rational way of educating is to be an example of what to avoid, if one can't be the other sort.

The first point in this model is: Feelings largely cause behavior. The way you feel, and how strongly, greatly influence how you will behave in a situation. If you get yourself overly anxious, angry, and upset about getting somewhere, you will likely drive like a nut.

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

But who shall be the master? The writer or the reader?

Pero no sólo los gobiernos totalitarios le temen a la lectura. En los patios de las escuelas y en los vestuarios de los clubes deportivos se intimida a los lectores tanto como en los despachos gubernamentales y en las prisiones.

Whatever we accomplish in life, if it's solely for our own good, then it doesn't mean that much. The things you do that affect others in a positive way are the ones that count. Whatever facet of life you're in, God has given you a gift; do the best you can with that gift.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.