Quotes About Influence

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

When she spoke, entire planets hushed to hear her words. People she had never heard of, and never -would- hear of, committed suicide at the thought that they were unworthy to share the universe with her. Obscure alien races knelt at her image and spit up, with appropriate ritual obeisance, offerings of the very best regurgitated fish-liver wine.

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him…. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

The final test of a leader is that he or she leaves behind in others the conviction and the will to carry on.

The established leaders of any organization have great natural advantages. They are believed to have better sources of information. The books and papers are in their offices. They took part in the important conferences. They met the important people. They have responsibility. It is, therefore, easier for them to secure attention and to speak in a convincing tone. But also they have a very great deal of control over the access to the facts. Every official is in some degree a censor.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible.

The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive. It controls the selection of correspondents who go to the front, controls their movements at the front, reads and censors their messages from the front, and operates the wires.

By putting the dead Germans in the focus of the picture, and by omitting to mention the French dead, a very special view of the battle was built up. It was a view designed to neutralize the effects of German territorial advances and the impression of power which the persistence of the offensive was making.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Halsey was a guy who got things done and King definitely liked and respected that quality.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When asked by a proper British gentlewoman if he had ever met the famous general, Dwight D. Eisenhower—himself about to march into history—supposedly replied, "Not only have I met him, ma'am; I studied dramatics under him for five years in Washington and four years in the Philippines.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial.

Juan podría haber utilizado el disco rayado, que consiste en repetir la misma frase, una y otra vez, hasta que la persona que intenta manipularnos se canse. Por ejemplo, si alguien quisiera venderle una aspiradora que usted no necesita, podría convertirse en un buen disco rayado, diciendo: "No gracias, no la necesito", "No gracias, no la necesito", las veces que sean necesarias hasta que el vendedor comprenda que usted es un caso perdido.

La conducta asertiva no necesariamente debe generar un cambio en los demás, aunque a veces lo logra.