Quotes About Influence

These days, you need powerful people to cooperate in terms of getting information, formal or informal approval to act, resources, introductions, and support (or room to maneuver) for implementation just to get your job done. Therefore, you can't achieve your objectives without getting help from others whom you do not control.

Influence at work requires that you know what you are doing, have reasonable plans, are competent at the task at hand.

The blindness of the powerful that is a consequence of large power gaps often prevents them from seeing the benefits to them and the organization of having or helping strengthen strong players below.

One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, "Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!" made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.

I taught more than one hundred kids today—and some of them were listening

She didn't think that she could sway the universe, but she hoped that you could nudge it with a prayer.

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, "Keep trying, it's an acquired taste.

was about ten years old. It was called The Geek.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

The power to label is the power to destroy.

I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings.

The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message

La meilleure facon d'imposer une idée aux autres, c'est de leur faire croire qu'elle vient d'eux

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate.

Far enough away from the White House to live above land, she thought. That was a good one: menacing yet vague.

Whitney sipped, still not looking up from her phone. "Mmm, perfect," she said. Whitney loved being cared for, and she did look after me as well. If sometimes it felt as if she treated me like staff, I could live with that. Wasn't I using her, too, in my own way? Would I still love her if she were poor, or less influential, less glamorous? I liked to think I would, but I couldn't know for sure.

Andrew, sounding impatient, said, "Will ye do it, lassie?" Blinking, Lina realized that she was still staring at Ian. He smiled, and so compelling was his smile that her own lips twitched in response. "It is up to you, lass," Ian said quietly. "I'd like it fine if you would." Warmth spread through her at those simple words.

The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.

Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.