Quotes About Influence

Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oor. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet.

we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

more to curry favor than to educate.

For some things, there is no forgiving or unforgiving. They are simply a crossroads, and a direction taken, whether I would or no. Someone else set my feet on that path. All I can control is every step I take after that.

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

It's the only way to deal with a man like that. He crawls for you or you crawl for him. It's all he knows.

And somehow by not speaking out on his own behalf, he made it impossible for anyone else to object.

Be a little puppet on their strings. That was what Reyn wanted from her, also. She recognized that even if he did not. He was attracted to her not just for her beauty and charm, but because she was young. He thought he could control all her actions and even her thoughts.

Become indispensable to everyone on this journey. Then you will have reasons to go everywhere and hear everything and no one will question your presence

a man who bears himself with authority will often have authority ceded to him.

But this I do know of men, both young and old. When they are in groups, they are likelier to sink to the lowest acceptable behavior rather than rise to the highest possible standards.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. Always deal from a position of power.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance.

Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.

If he did not know the future, he appeared to, and by his calm assumption of foreknowledge, he swayed many of us to help him shape the future as he saw fit.

There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth.

In times like these, perhaps a Queen with a knife will give us more heart than a woman who drapes herself in jewels and hides behind walls.

Jovem como eu era, perguntava-me que espécie de homem era este que, com uma perna enfaixada, conseguia impor respeito a um recinto cheio de homens durões, com apenas um olhar ou uma palavra.

That is both the danger and the hope of life. That each of us changes the world, every day.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbour, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?

Many men hope that by saying a thing they can make it so," Chade said neutrally. "Even when they must know better

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.