Quotes About Influence

parents who read widely together with their children are going to be those who most influence their children

We influence by what we are and by what we do. In one sense, it could be said that we influence others simply by being.

Affirming, nurturing people influence others far beyond their intention simply because they provide rich soil in which individual personalities can grow.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing that we are just plain nice folks.

Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.

I, of course, replied with the golden tongue of a horse seller. Uh ... Uh ... But ...

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

The state is more interested in self-aggrandizement and power than it is in promoting the good.

want to stress yet again that it has never not been the case that Buddhism is refracted through the ideological prisms of its time and place. My point is that, for us today, the refracting master prism is neoliberalism

Power knows power.

there are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

The direction in which the culture of an age develops is, humanly speaking, chosen by a few exceptionally intelligent men. The popular authors then pick up some of the main ideas, usually distorting and diluting them considerably, and finally fifty years or a century later the general viewpoint has seeped down to the whole populace.

There's always a way, his sister lectured. We'll need help, though. What help? Amy grinned. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

Why? There was no logical explanation for what I did. It had to come from my DNA. That's why I needed ancestry.com.

Maybe it's simpler than that: If the biggest jerks form a club, everything starts to fall apart when one of them isn't quite so jerky anymore.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together, retorted Mark.

But what does it mean to "guard" the heart? For one thing, the writer is obviously concerned that the heart be protected from influences outside itself that might jeopardize its integrity. The writer is also focused on the strength and development of the heart in order to increase its capacity to bring order to one's life.

Occasionally we hear the story of an organizational leader who, having given powerful leadership to an institution, comes toward the end of his working life and keeps holding on to leadership long after he should have let it pass into the hands of someone in a younger generation. Or he ensures that the leadership passes into the hands of a son or a daughter so that he can maintain his influence.

Are we going to order our inner worlds, our hearts, so that they will radiate influence into the outer world? Or will we neglect our private worlds and, thus, permit the outer influences to shape us? This is a choice we must make every day of our lives.

The very first Maxim of Tyranny, is and always was, to puzzle the Understandings and excite the Admiration of the People.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.