Quotes About Influence

Every time I think of staying with her, she bring that friend around and make a nigga reconsider.

Im a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

I got the Hammer money, sweetie you cant touch this.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm.

Still spittin that shit that they shot Pac over, the shit my mother look shocked over.

Growing up in Eastern Europe you learn very youg that politics is not an abstract concept, but a powerful force influencing people's everyday lives.

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Lives are like novels. Plot, character, and tone are all part of the devices we employ: Aim to be a contributor and not a detractor to the story.

politics are the curse of the Navy!

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

Lloyd Hey, look, the Monkees. They were a huge influence on the Beatles.

In other words, our perceptions of who influences us may say more about social and hierarchical relations than influence per se.

What it means, though, is that the law of the few is not one, but two hypotheses that have been mashed together: first that some people are more influential than others; and second, that the influence of these people is greatly magnified by some contagion process that generates social epidemics.

The reason is simply that when influence is spread via some contagious process, the outcome depends far more on the overall structure of the network than on the properties of the individuals who trigger it.

Just as forest fires require a conspiracy of wind, temperature, low humidity, and combustible fuel to rage out of control over large tracts of land, social epidemics require just the right conditions to be satisfied by the network of influence.

Even though the Kim Kardashians of the world were indeed more influential than average, they were so much more expensive that they did not provide the best value for the money. Rather, it was what we called ordinary influencers, meaning individuals who exhibit average or even less-than-average influence, who often proved to be the most cost-effective means to disseminate information.

if we want to understand why people do what they do, we must understand the incentives that they face, and hence their preference for one outcome versus another. When someone does something that seems strange or puzzling to us, rather than writing them off as crazy or irrational, we should instead seek to analyze their situation in hopes of finding a rational incentive.

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.