Quotes About Influence

True friends influence the personality and attitudes of their friends.

True friends influence the moral conduct of their friends.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

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A leader's job is to bring people together for a common purpose, so credibility is critical. That will only come when people trust their leader and want to follow his or her lead. Communication opens the door to understanding what the leader is and what he or she stands for.

Communication opens the door to authenticity. A leader's presence affirms that what the leader says is an indication of what he or she believes. And when we sense that the leader means well, we will lend the leader our ears and will be inclined to follow his or her leadership.

A vulnerable leader facilitates the bonds of trust by making herself approachable, likeable, and respectable.

When a leader demonstrates vulnerability, she enables three things to occur: approachability, likeability, and respectability.

Ignorant people are controlled people, which is why five companies now have spent billions of dollars to control our mass media. Nothing will change until masses of people understand this.

I started to write when I was 11 or 12, doing bad imitations of Joyce. There were always white blossoms falling into the grave at the end of every story.

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

The history of the Bible is thus the story of the interplay between the religion and the book Ã¢â'¬â€œ neither mapping exactly onto the other.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power over the entire lives of another class. But in the sense that money is the token of, and the key to, every human capacity. The power to spend money is the power to live.

A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.

Publicity has another social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those make and use publicity in no way lessens its significance. Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy.

been disturbed. This is why Rembrandt or Vermeer or Poussin or Chardin or Goya or Turner had no followers but only superficial imitators.

The number of lives that enter our own is incalculable.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.