Quotes About Influence

2. Contagion

3. Suggestibility

If you have ever had a position on and intended to do one thing but actually did something else, then you were a member of the psychological crowd and made a crowd trade—whether you knew it or not. Otherwise, you would have done what you originally intended.

Remember, it is not a function of a quantity of individuals that determines if a psychological crowd has formed. Rather, it is a function of the characteristics displayed. If a person is exhibiting these characteristics, then he is part of a psychological crowd and is making crowd trades.

The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, "Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

We are what circumstances make of us

In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.

When we learn something, we can change our own life. When we teach something, we can change another's life—but when we teach people to teach, we can change the world.

write books, make speeches, produce movies, or even submit a weekly column with the thought of making people's lives better, stand atop the giant shoulders of Napoleon Hill. Anyone who has written a self-help or personal-development book in the last 75 years enjoyed an advantage that Napoleon Hill never had. We have all benefited

OUR LEGACIES Every footprint that we take Makes a change where we have passed. Small things there beneath our heel Are changing where the print was cast. What then could any difference make When ruthless paths our courses take? Beneath our heel some things will bend Without the strength to rise again. Joye Kanelakos

Who we are is a tribute to those who have left us a legacy. Who we help others become will be our legacy.

it is more important how you change the lives of those whom you touch every day than whether or not you change the world.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.

the great ones—you can still taste them years later, even remember the exact spot where you met them. You can't always put your finger on why they linger with you, but they do.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.