Quotes About Influence

As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

John Locke, Adam Smith, and James Madison, the big three of modern liberalism

Such is the importance of social channels.

Show me a political system without machine politics, and I'll show you confusion, fragmentation, and a drift toward ungovernable extremism.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

It is not necessary to delegitimize, call out, or cancel your opponents. It is better, simply, to persuade them.

His body did not accompany his people as they entered the land, but his teachings did. His sons did not succeed him, but his disciples did. He may have felt that he had not changed his people in his lifetime, but in the full perspective of history, he changed them more than any leader has ever changed any people, turning them into the people of the book and the nation who built not ziggurats or pyramids but schools and houses of study.

Religion was the robe of sanctity worn to mask the naked pursuit of power.

Moses would not have won an election. He was not that kind of leader. Instead Moses summons the people to humility and responsibility.

To be a leader, you do not need a crown or robes of office. All you need to do is to write your chapter in the story, do deeds that heal some of the pain of this world, and act so that others become a little better for having known you. Live so that, through you, our ancient covenant with God is renewed in the only way that matters: in life. Moses' last testament to us at the very end of his days, when his mind might so easily have turned to death, was: choose life.

Power works by division, influence by multiplication. Power, in other words, is a zero-sum game: the more you share, the less you have. Influence is a non-zero-sum game: the more you share, the more you have.

Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.

is not necessary to delegitimize, call out, or cancel your opponents. It is better, simply, to persuade them.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.

reminded him of Paul Cézanne's words about seeing in nature the cone, sphere, and cylinder, words that Picasso and Braque, even his old friend Max

Penelope Fittes—" "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. The stories that give us our names, our identities, the places we belong, the people we hate.

This was classic Lockwood. Friendly, considerate, empathetic. My personal impulse would have been to slap the girl soundly round the face and boot her moaning backside out into the night. Which is why he's the leader, and I'm not. Also why I have no female friends.

Strange how sometimes you make a particular choice. When it's not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind