Quotes About Influence

Whichever it is, he does not question it, not understanding that his own behavior has been or could be a determining influence.

Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I'll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.

If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

A Woman's Place is in the House Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the Senate.

Usted es como yo —había dicho Sam Roffe—. Nosotros queremos ser dueños del mundo. Yo le enseñaré cómo lograrlo. —Y lo hizo.

There are no more statesmen. Countries are being run by politicians. There was a time not too long ago when this earth was peopled with giants. Some were good, and some were evil – but, by God, they were giants. Roosevelt and Churchill, Hitler and Mussolini. Charles de Gaulle and Joseph Stalin. Why did they all live at that one particular time? Why aren't there any statesmen today?

His main problem, he knew, would be controlling the press.

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

The ego is not master in its own house.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

And, finally, groups have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions, and cannot do without them. They constantly give what is unreal precedence over what is real; they are almost as strongly influenced by what is untrue as by what is true. They have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the two.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind – separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.

Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.

Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

At one point in the course of this discussion, the idea took possession of us that culture was a peculiar process passing over human life and we are still under the influence of this idea.

en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.