Quotes About Influence

Historians are trained to look for personal biography in every idea, no matter how scientifically objective it is supposed to be, and to look for the influence of contemporary opinion on the rise and fall of scientific theories.

A change in purpose changes a system profoundly, even if every element and interconnection remains the same.

In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.

As we try to imagine restructured rules and what our behavior would be under them, we come to understand the power of rules. They are high leverage points. Power over the rules is real power.

Grammar is politics by other means.

There is nothing like finding that one incredible woman who changes everything.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

We are not the victims of our circumstances; we are the creators of them!

12 Keep your thoughts positive about the future, as what you are thinking influences your future. This is a message to keep your faith and hope strong, because these are strong determining factors right now.

Whatever you speak about is what you create more of. So choose to talk about the best possible scenarios, the easiest way to do something, or how you've grown and learned from an experience. When

Remember that when your life doesn't look the way you want it to, you have the power to change that. You have the ability to shape and create your reality, because what you do causes a ripple effect of change across the Universe. Whether or not you realize it, the Universe is reacting to every single step you take. It's viewed as a very deliberate and conscious action on your part. Ask

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

In order to "win a man to your cause," Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, "the great high road to his reason.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Words matter . . . They really do.

The importance of novels and short stories in our society is great. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that many readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world. The movies have not undermined the influence of fiction. On the contrary, they have extended its field, carrying the ideas which are already current among reader to those too young, too impatient, or too uneducated to read.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!