Quotes About Influence

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.

you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..

bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

don't tell me I should only talk to people with a high influence score, or I'll Klout you...

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

Women tug their men toward the world the TV lays before them, in the belief that it exists.

If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But if, having escaped or not, he wants in some way to know himself, define himself, and tries to do it without taking into account the thing he came from, he is writing without any ink in his pen.

It takes time for the habit of people to wear off of you

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

As I understood it, what really mattered was simply that some systems ('system' is just a jargon word for anything, like a swinging pendulum, or the Solar System, or water dripping from a tap) are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there is feedback, so that what a system does affects its own behaviour.

Applications of NLP

the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually listen to what people say, there's almost no content substance to it.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

L. Moody warned believers: Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may be in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.15

Take charge of your life or someone else will!