Quotes About Influence

I am interested in politics.

people will either inspire you, or they will drain you - choose who you associate with wisely!

La Rochefoucauld once said, "The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

My grandmother used to say, "Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

You can control the controllables.

If you can make the customer feel the way you do about your product, then your customer will buy your product.

Obtener una tarjeta de crédito para su adolescente es un excelente modo de enseñarle a ser financieramente irresponsable. Por eso los adolescentes son ahora el blanco número uno de las compañías de tarjetas de crédito.

The accountability of a group environment causes people to change their behaviors.

Children are sponges—they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them.

The very measure of God's power in a believer's life is dependent on how much of his life is ordered by the Holy Ghost.

Those who wish to preserve political power structures are often very keen on genetic determinism.

Behind every screen on your phone, there are literally a thousand engineers that have worked on this thing to try to make it maximally addicting

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

When you're under the influence of this belief, you tend to act as if the simple act of worrying can change the future, that it might prevent bad events from happening that would have otherwise happened. I'm not referring here to situations in which your thoughts lead you to take action, and those actions influence the future. Here I mean that people treat worry itself as something that can affect the future.

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one.

It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared.

Why do stories persuade? There are several explanations: First, people deduce a story's logic by themselves. We know from research and common sense that self-discovery is much more powerful than having people talk at you.

This book shows how to apply the power of storytelling to strategic messaging in the age of social media.

First, recognize that a set of facts can guide and inspire only if it is heard and gains buy-in—but that is rarely the case. Second, explore how stories can accomplish or help to accomplish the same objective. Sometimes, a set of facts can be turned into a story by providing a context and more information.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

Sa prošloš?u, me?utim, ?ovek nikada ne sme da bude siguran. Ona nije, ube?en sam, tako nepromenljiva kao što se ?esto ?uje, ve? se rado, mada u krajnje svedenom obliku, menja i tako uti?e na ne?iju sadašnjost i budu?nost.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.