Quotes About Influence

The steady advance, and cultural power, of marketing and advertising has caused "the displacement of a political public sphere by a depoliticized consumer culture."21

The anti-Communist control mechanism reaches through the system to exercise a profound influence on the mass media. In normal times as well as in periods of Red scares, issues tend to be framed in terms of a dichotomized world of Communist and anti-Communist powers, with gains and losses allocated to contesting sides, and rooting for "our side" considered an entirely legitimate news practice.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Sam Goldwyn hated above all others was Mayer, who had forced Sam out after he and Louis had formed MGM. "Once Mayer told him to dump you, your future was secure.

People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.

A Christian has as much choice to be related to the church as a child has to be related to her mother.

Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.

Thus, by degrees, we began to discover Tisquantum; whose ends were only to make himself great in the eyes of his countrymen, by means of his nearness and favour with us: not caring who fell, so he stood.

Personally, I can do very little, but I can contribute to a whole chain of events, and that's a marvelous feeling. It's like a bonus to me towards the end of my life. It gives me a voice." (Audrey Hepburn)

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Poet and kings are but the clerks of Time.

even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Able leaders understand that nobody can really serve as an example by trying to do so. When we see an attempt to set an example, we suspect it is phony and not deeply rooted. People become real exemplars, trusted and looked up to, by being what they appear to be.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Men without an organized system of thought will always be at the mercy of men who have one.

Decisiones. Dureza. Liderazgo. Las marcas del hombre.

There is a destiny that makes us brother. None goes his way alone. All that we wend into the lives of others, comes back into our own.

Now he [Lincoln] belongs to the ages.

I'm not just an elected official of the city; I'm a tribal chieftain as well.

A leader doesn't mean to have governmental power; it means, to lead its people on the right, secure, equal, fair, and visionary way of life.

A leader's moral responsibility is, to show the straight way; however, it lies up to the follower, how and when it adopts accordingly and sincerely that.

A leader's moral responsibility is, to show the straight way; however, it lies upon the follower, how and when it adopts, accordingly and sincerely that.