Quotes About Influence

The more powerful the group to which we belong, the less likely, generally, we are to question the system that legitimises and confers these privileges.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

It was like a disease. A Phoebe-Pace-inspired disease, this need to speak so much—to explain himself.

The learning context exerts very strong effects on whether a particular individual characteristic becomes an impediment to learning.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It does not attack, it seduces.

Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.

As you know, both Maxine and I like Saul Bellow. It is even hard to dislike parts of his work that one might in some one else. I like Henderson the most.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

You cannot touch love . . . But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good...or for evil.

There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels. And maybe she wasn't going to be able to know all the Jacks that there would be. But all the Hazels that ever would be would have Jack in them, somewhere.

In general, they weren't particularly intelligent and thus easily influenced, and thanks to the unusual wartime circumstances, they suddenly found themselves wielding a power they had never had before.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas," David Bowie told an interviewer in 1972, the same year he scored pop superstardom with his iconic Ziggy Stardust persona. Twenty years later, Bowie confessed that while filling auditoriums with impassioned fans back then, "I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem

The whole world is a personality cult.

Of the world's 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends' friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.