Quotes About Influence

People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists.

Small gestures and time. Rarely failed to win folk over.

A few words can be more effective than a lot of blades, even in such times as these.

the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.' The

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up!

Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.

My master used to say that knowledge is the root of power, but I rather suspect power has a golden root these days.

And they'll follow you?' asked one of Forest's aides. 'They'll follow anyone who feeds them,' said Jurand. 'Especially if he points them in the direction of home.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

A king needs to be seen. And to be seen to be seen.

the room. "Now it seems anyone's son can get an education, and a business, and become rich. The merchant guilds: the Mercers, the Spicers and their like, grow steadily in wealth and influence. Jumped-up, posturing commoners dictating to their natural betters. Their fat and greedy fingers, fumbling at the strings of power. It is almost too much to stand." He gave a shudder as he paced across the floor.

When you say no to the wrong people, it opens up the space for the right people to come in.

81 percent of U.S. online consumers' purchase decisions are influenced by their friends' social media posts.

Fear subsides when you believe that control has returned. Because all too often I would watch Kathleen do a splendid job of controlling her horse, only to find out later that she didn't believe she was in control.

I didn't want to write SF about people who Sold The Moon or were the big Earth-shattering Newtons-Pasteurs-Einsteins-Hawkings of the future. I wasn't interested in the people who shaped the future. I was more interested in people who were shaped by the future. People who were products of their environment.

Reality is not one continuous and consistent stream, but is instead, a field of infinite possibilities over which we can exert enormous influence—that is, if we tune into the proper levels of mind.

What we're conditioned to believe about ourselves, and what we're programmed to think other people think about us, affects our performance, including how successful we are.

We know that it takes a clear intention (a coherent brain) and an elevated emotion (a coherent heart) to begin to change a person's biology from living in the past to living in the future. That combination of mind and body—of thoughts and feelings—also seems to influence matter. And that's how you create reality.

In other words, if you can imagine a particular future event that you want to experience in your life, that reality already exists as a possibility somewhere in the quantum field—beyond this space and time—just waiting for you to observe it. If your mind (through your thoughts and feelings) can affect when and where an electron appears out of nowhere, then theoretically, you should be able to influence the appearance of any number of possibilities that you can imagine. From

Thoughts matter and they become matter. We can't separate them like Descartes did. Our thoughts influence physical phenomena; they interact with all the matter in the universe. In truth, our personal reality is just a reflection of our personality.

Beliefs are also more permanent than attitudes; they can last for months or even years. And because they last longer, they become more programmed within you.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions for increasing your level of suggestibility. It teaches your body emotionally that the event you're grateful for has already happened, because we usually give thanks after a desirable event has occurred.

A good rule of thumb: Don't watch anything on television or on the Internet or participate in any mode of entertainment that you don't want to experience—not only before bed, but ever.

By the same means, if you were to change how you feel, could you become more suggestible to a new stream of thoughts? Absolutely! By feeling an elevated emotion and allowing a whole new set of thoughts to be driven by that new feeling, you'd increase your level of suggestibility to what you were feeling and then thinking.