Quotes About Influence

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I see Christianity's influence as a resplendent mural with many scenes, each depicted in bright, brilliant, and beautiful colors. Without Christianity, there would be an awful lot of grays and only a few scattered and disconnected lines here and there giving any sense of meaning. But Christianity adds so much meaning, hope , and beauty and richness to the picture.

She is only a woman, the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all!" (Pope Sixtus V referring to Elizabeth I).

What would it be like if the highly visible figures in the life of a nation started to set examples of moderation and humility rather than excessiveness and arrogance?

Advocacy means persuading people who matter to care about your issue. It is about getting listened to, being at the table when decisions are made, being heard by people who make decisions. It is about facing and overcoming resistance. It is about speaking and writing in compelling ways that make decision makers want to adopt your ideas.

Society makes. Then society rewards and punishes her handiwork.

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

Only in this connection of knowledge and social action can education generate the understanding... necessary for the continued existence of democracy.

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The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary—obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that

I read and keep silent. I am one of the silent watchers. I know that every sentence, every word, every picayune punctuation that appears in the public press is perused and revised and deleted in the interests of advertisers and bondholders. The fountain of national life is poisoned at the source.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

With ravish'd earsThe monarch hears;Assumes the god,Affects to nod,And seems to shake the spheres.

Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.

The conscience of a people is their power.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

When the series outlived original material, she created new stories, but used some character or incident in the canon as her jump-off point. So successful was she at capturing the color of the written word that she drew warm praise from Conan Doyle's widow and son. Denis Conan Doyle, watching from the sponsor's booth as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce became his father's characters in a 1941 radio play, pronounced it "admirable, absolutely admirable.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.