Quotes About Influence

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.

Word of mouth is way more important than millions of dollars spent marketing.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

Unfortunately, my system for tracking down funny female writers isn't methodical. It's mainly based on word-of-mouth, which can cast a limited net.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words have a lot of power.

It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.