Quotes About Influence

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.

The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken. —Samuel Johnson

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

Backstage controls the show, not the audience."

The difference between the scarecrow and the mannequin is that they both don't know they are being used by others.

There is no negative energy that resists positive people.

Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The Chinese Communists had their Red Guards. The Taliban in Afghanistan had their madrasah schools to instill extremism in the young. The great omission seems to be unique to Christians.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

By the death of Mr. O. Chanute the world has lost one whose labors had to an unusual degree influenced the course of human progress. If he had not lived the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been.

And you have fixed my life — however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze.

Die Massen in Bewegung zu setzen braucht's nur der Phrase eines Dummkopfs. Wie lange Zeit braucht der kluge Mann, um nur einen einzigen zu seiner Meinung zu bekehren!

The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a very definite kind of mass leadership and mass influence: authoritarian, one-party system, hence totalitarian, a system in which power takes priority over objective interests, and facts are distorted for political purposes. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.

Sen onlara ancak ?öyle sahip ç?kars?n küçük adam: Öteki küçük adamlar, bu büyük adamlar?n gerçekten büyük oldu?unu sana söyledi?i zaman.

Bilgili kimseye öykünmeyi beceremiyorsun ama soyguncuya öykünmeyi çok iyi beceriyorsun. Filmlerin, radyo programlar?n, "güldürü kitaplar?n" hep cinayetlerle dolu.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.