Quotes About Influence

One word, Ted replied, dead serious, can change the whole world. There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), I bet he did really well on his SATs.

It takes so little to change everything.

Todo eso por una palabra? le preguntó Jess. Una palabra, contestó Ted, completamente serio, puede cambiar el mundo entero

It didn't matter that I'd done none of those things. With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.

But idols fall, and sometimes they land right on you and leave you flattened.

All I could think was that here, finally, for once, I wasn't only watching and reporting but part of this moving, changing world as well.

With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.

feeling and action are always linked

Everyone's life shapes them in their own unique way.

It was as if I was attached to her with a tether, her every movement yanking at me, my own hands reaching to shield her from the dangers of her waving arms.

Attention from a cute boy-you could power the world with it.

My mother had always been the point that I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well.

one word could change the whole world

Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends.

It is the ones who keep you in thrall to more than their snatches who command the houses and the gowns to go with them. And for that they have first to love themselves.

such volumes of philosophy had the air of old men about them: venerable but having lost the energy to influence a world that had moved on from them.

How do ugly men make their way through life? He thinks of Michelotto. When he walks down the street men take half a step back from him. But he, Cesare, wields a different power. His face has always been his first weapon. Look at me, it says. I am what you see: easy on the eye, strong to the taste, a man with substance, someone to admire, for how can beauty this natural lie?

It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them.

Say each cue word clearly, in a strong but nonthreatening voice.

sitting for attention instead of jumping, and grabbing a bone when they're excited instead of little Casey's ponytail. The choice of how your puppy behaves is really up to you.

Jonah makes sure to sit next to Jack, gazing up at him admiringly.

Power is the ability to influence and control.

There is often a "cadre" of bad friends around a person encouraging them to do things that are morally wrong, unjustified, and unethical

Doc didn't have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn't need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.