Quotes About Influence

A wife sets the ambience of a man's life.

All big changes of the world come from words

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand. He that gives good advice and sets a good example, builds with both hands. But he that gives good advice and sets a bad example, builds with one hand and tears down with the other.

The other members of Queen wrote songs – often great songs – but it was Freddie who sold them.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government

the truth of Ho's teachings, that the party and the army were not enough. Real victory could come only from the people.

Leadership was partly showmanship, and Westy neglected no means of projecting confidence, strength, and moxie.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. —John F. Kennedy

Too many churches today have preachers who look to the culture around them not simply for the most effective methods of communicating their message but for the most effective message to be preached.

As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.

It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.

History is made by the winners... and written by those with the loudest voices...

How alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white paper under the words, making all their achievements possible and contributing nothing to the meaning. She

One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.

Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they.

follow Churchill's admonition, "I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you,"123

What's the difference what you watch?" Praeger shot back. "When that stream of hypnotic electrons starts winging into your brain, you're finished, good-as-gone, condemned to hell. No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

General Motors, ITT, and Ford come most readily to mind as having plants protected by Hitler

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou

New black heroes were made and old ones dropped every day.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. —MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967

Machiavelli famously said that it is better to be feared than to be loved. But he also warned that it is vital not to be hated.