Quotes About Influence

Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.

Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David

War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Gold's father was five feet two and subject to unexpected attacks of wisdom. 'Make money!' he might shout suddenly, apropos of nothing, and his stepmother would add liturgically, 'You should all listen to your father.'   

His novel, a work he had wrestled with, on and off, for almost three years, he had finally abandoned after one page. The novel was derivative of a poem Gold had written seven years before that was itself derived from a brilliant exegesis by a young Englishman of the works of Samuel Beckett that Gold wished he'd written himself.

How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction and clusters of other hands must have touched themselves to the controls at various times, for I would not have picked this way for the world.

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

If Jefferson seemed predestined to tell people what they wanted to hear, Adams now acknowledged that his own destiny was just the opposite: to tell them what they needed to know.

First, it is crucial to recognize that Washington's extraordinary reputation rested less on his prudent exercise of power than on his dramatic flair at surrendering it. He was, in fact, a veritable virtuoso of exits.

It is well known, that when one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

He found himself in the ironic position of being the indispensable man in a political world that regarded all leaders as disposable.

Mr. Henry had without a doubt the greatest power to persuade, [but] Mr. Madison had the great power to convince.

Instead of citing scientific studies to justify mandates for masks, lockdowns, and vaccines, our medical rulers cite WHO, CDC, FDA, and NIH—captive agencies that are groveling sock puppets to the industries they regulate. Multiple federal and international investigations have documented the financial entanglements with pharmaceutical companies that have made these regulators cesspools of corruption.

Over ninety percent of your mental life is subconscious. If you fail to make use of this marvelous power, you condemn yourself to live within very narrow limits.

The suggestions of others in themselves have absolutely no power whatever over you except the power that you give them through your own thoughts. You have to give your mental consent; you have to entertain the thought. Then, it becomes your thought, and you do the thinking. Remember, you have the capacity to choose. Choose life! Choose love! Choose health!

You are living in a psychological prison of your own making, and you are bound by your beliefs, opinions, training, and environmental influences. Like most people, you are a creature of habit. You are conditioned to react the way you do.

Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect.

subconscious mind does not engage  in  proving whether your thoughts  are  good or bad, true  or false, but it responds according to the nature of your thoughts or suggestions.

You may have to repeat this drama of the mind many times before an impression is made, but the secret of impregnating the deeper mind is continuous or sustained imagination.

Remember that your subconscious mind cannot take a joke. It takes you at your word.

Your thought is action, and the reaction is the automatic response of your subconscious mind to your thought. Watch your thoughts!

The suggestions and statements of others have no power to hurt you. The only power is the movement of your own thought. You can choose to reject the thoughts or statements of others and affirm the good. You have the power to choose how you will react.