Quotes About Influence

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

It's like Kilroy only talking about Big Brother and there's no racism allowed.

I say you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich…. Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

Imagination, given time, does rule the world.

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.

There are three types of parents—first, those who are always fussing after their children, controlling and correcting them and trying to make them walk in the same paths as themselves; then the infinitely preferable variety, who neglect their children altogether; and lastly, the ideal kind, who watch their children from a distance and are ready with encouragement and friendship when that is needed. (Viola, p. 35)

People had a wonderful feeling with him of being in the presence of a great man.'[

In the hands of a Magnum photographer, the camera is not just an objective eye, but an instrument to enlighten and inform, a stimulating force to influence opinion and sometimes to speak for those with no voice.

I understand that for beginners it isn't that easy to sit down, close your eyes, and settle into stillness. Your thoughts have gotten used to making SO MUCH NOISE! They have enjoyed too much influence over you to simply fade the first time you try.

Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.

Growing up under patriarchy is a grooming process that leaves girls and women extremely vulnerable to male manipulation.

From the moment of his birth the customs into which [an individual] is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture.

But she's only a woman!" The watch captain shook his head again. "So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.

That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.

Meanwhile, the mufti and his followers sat back, watching the war between Britain and the Jews with satisfaction.

Truly, the best thing any of us have to bring to leadership is our own transforming selves.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

The minute you meet some people you know you will hate their mothers.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

The admonitions of those who seldom remonstrate are more effective than the commands of naggers.

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.