Quotes About Influence

In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way. Crazy

It could be said that the dishes used human beings in a symbiotic relationship, convincing us through their usefulness to make new dishes.

that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

When you identify as part of a group, your opinions tend to be biased toward the group consensus.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

People are more influenced by the direction of things than the current state.

A good general rule is that people are more influenced by visual persuasion, emotion, repetition, and simplicity than they are by details and facts.

You're wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision.

To change yourself, part of the solution might involve spending more time with the people who represent the change you seek.

In an early article Jean Baudrillard wrote: "It is useless to fantasize about state projection of police control through TV. . . . TV, by virtue of its mere presence, is a social control in itself. There is no need to imagine it as a state periscope spying on everybody's life– the situation as it stands is more efficient than that: it is the certainty that people are no longer speaking to each other.

I understand that it takes patience, but there are also positive signs. H. U. von Balthasar, the theologian who probably has the greatest influence in the Catholic world for the moment, has handed down a very positive verdict on my book. Likewise, K. Lehmann, who is the theologian of the German Bishops' Conference. So I think that your thinking will gradually prevail, even if there is resistance and difficulties for the moment.

Among the reactions to your work, there is quite a discussion concerning your concept of "union in love" ["amour fusion"]. In this context, I often think of a text of Richard of St. Victor concerning trinitarian love.153 (Trinitarian love—is it not the final response to triangular desire?) I thank you once again for all that you have given me through your work. I realize more and more that this has had a decisive influence on my life. Sincerely, R. Schwager

good writing inspires me to write and bad writing provokes me to write.

Control the land and you control those who live on it. Own the land and you own those who live on it.

Children believe things in their hearts, and much of what they believe comes from what their parents tell them.

lawyer by training, Kajevic had the same talent as Hitler, making his gargantuan self-importance a proxy for his country's and his rantings the voice of his people's long-suppressed rage.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me?a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.