Quotes About Influence

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don't have any.

One crying child is the rotten apple in the barrel of the tribe!

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

Yet I honestly think that in her absence, and over time, she became powerfully present to him. Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It is when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.

I think part of my illogical despair had been due to my sense of political powerlessness, caused to some extent by a lack of living models.

because part of shaping ourselves is done by others; and a lot of our shaping comes from that one close friend who is something like us. It

The child may feel strongly about his or her goals, but it is the parent who is raising the child and not vice versa. While retaining their empathy, adults need to achieve the self-confidence to have the last word when they are not being cruel or unreasonably arbitrary.

I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like this.

Rich is not writing about transcending this world... But about transforming it. Here, and now. And what hope do we have of changing the world if we can't change our sorry-ass selves? As wisdom tends to do, the poem reveals something very simple that's been here all along: We are not the center of everything. But we are a part of everything.

My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens

Be well advised what ye put in his head, for ye shall never pull it out again.

Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them

Never underestimate the power of calculated bullying and veiled threats! It's my conviction that, when it comes to politics, a tender conscience can be an inconvenience.

Self-interest usually governed political loyalties.

I would rather a simple ploughman could read it and make up his own mind than see the Church continue to manipulate the Bible to its own ends.

Because, when it came down to it, power depended only on a woman's body not letting her down.

Madam, I pray you, be governed by me, or some other wise person. With respect, you are a woman and in need of masculine guidance.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

cuando el público se cruza de brazos, no sólo tiene más pensamientos negativos sobre el conferenciante, sino que además presta menos atención a lo que se dice. Es por este motivo que los centros de formación deberían tener sillas con brazos que permitieran a los asistentes dejar los brazos descruzados.

It's usually not enough to point out impending problems/opportunities or even to propose solutions. You may have to garner support for your proposed solution or conduct small pilot tests. All of this involves the need to influence powerful people.

It is an illusion that once upon a time managers could make their direct reports do whatever was needed. Nobody has ever had enough authority—they never have and never will. Organizational life is too complicated for that.