Quotes About Influence

Greek slowly emerged—distinct from others of the Indo-European group and incorporating elements

burst westwards and southwards towards Europe and the settled lands of the Middle East.

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

With my grandmother and Charlie, though, I experienced love as something tangible between myself and another human being. In the gently powerful presence of these two exceptional souls, love was made easy for my understanding. Love was the source of their ability to mesmerize me so completely.

Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to state that all of modern philosophy constitutes reactions to and criticisms of Descartes' Meditations.

The safety of our sons and daughters as they go out on the streets this very night is due to the influence of the preachers rather than to the police men and lawmakers. The safety of our nation, including all groups, depends on Christian education.

Wissenschaft ist Macht.

El desenlace dependerá de la amplitud de las reservas democráticas depositadas en la ciudadanía y en los partidos de oposición.

Quiere imponer su mundo y evitar que haya cambios.

Es la cultura responsable de la violencia y la corrupción que dominan a los hombres? ¿O hay un mal congénito impreso en la naturaleza misma del hombre?

gobierna poco y mal, pero en cambio está empeñado en una permanente campaña electoral.

There are three things that constantly mediate our belief in ghosts – religion, the media and social status. Since these are things that change, our ghosts have changed in accordance with them.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

It should come as no surprise that the real value and benefit of accountability stems from a person's or an organization's ability to influence events and outcomes before they happen.

Thus we see the Methodists as they were transformed from sect to church. Their clergy were increasingly willing to condone the pleasures of this world and to deemphasize sin, hellfire, and damnation; this lenience struck highly responsive chords in an increasingly affluent, influential, and privileged membership.

No matter how many people are involved in a negotiation, important decisions are typically made when no more than two people are in the room.

Increase your negotiation power is by improving your walk-away alternative. An attractive BATNA is a strong argument with which to persuade the other side of the need to offer more.

J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Ce genre de communication (mass-médias) ne sert pas à faire "communiquer" les hommes et les peuples, à enrichir leur expérience de la vie par l'expérience des autres, mais au contraire, à abêtir, à manipuler, à conditionner (pour faire acheter un produit, faire voter pour un parti, ou faire accepter une guerre).

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie had not lived, we still would have discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium. But if J. K. Rowling had not been born, we would never have known about Harry Potter. That is why Master Potter means so much to me. Science may be special but Harry, as a work of art, is more so. Harry Potter is unique.

Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into killers.