Quotes About Influence

There is a part of us in everyone else.

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else

The man corrected him. Honor, he said firmly. I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

A man who had, as an adult, fled the cult in which he had been raised, told me that his psychiatrist had recommended The Giver to him.

Money, power, sex ... and elephants.

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat.

Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.

Not only was Ivan an idiot, but he generated a telepathic damping field that turned people nearby into idiots, too. He would point this out to Barrayaran Intelligence, who would make of his cousin the newest weapon in their arsenal—if

the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.

Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.

I expect you'll be wading for the rest of your life," Illyan answered seriously. "But every Komarran who follows you will have less crap to deal with, because of you.

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children—children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too.

Not one, she realized with a chill, was staring at her as though she had gone mad. They were all staring at her as though she was going to tell them what to do next.

Y lo peor de todo: si permites que las amistades pesen en el gobierno, pronto tendrás camarillas

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force

The gods have no hands but ours, they say." He held up his fingers and wiggled them.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job," Miles agreed.