Quotes About Influence

No amount of control will effect a permanent or desirable change in another person. We can sometimes do things that increase the probability that people will want to change, but we can't even guarantee or control that.

I don't know how much my writing has contributed to this consciousness-raising, and how much the consciousness-raising has contributed to my writing. But I'm grateful to be part of what's happened

When we attempt to control people and things that we have no business controlling, we are controlled. We forfeit our power to think, feel, and act in accordance with our best interests. We frequently lose control of ourselves. Often

There are some things we can't do, no matter how long or hard we try. These things include changing other people, solving their problems, and controlling their behavior. Sometimes, we feel powerless over ourselves—what we feel or believe, or the effects of a particular situation or person on us.

You had the feeling they were nice because they'd decided it was the fashion to be nice.

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

In his experience, true leaders seldom had or needed flamboyant titles.

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

Be careful when someone repeats something too often; things that are repeated often enough can start to seem to be true, even when they are not.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

what Mr. Bishop talked to Tomas about was living with them and controlling them, as if the ability to start fires with his mind was some kind of large dog Tomas had accidentally adopted and was now going to have to learn to take care of properly, like it or not. He

People who were not already divided into factions would make factions given the chance, and they would always want the most important people to belong to their faction, whether the person in question agreed with that or not.

Make your motivations secret to the enemy, fool them into false planning, use their force against them, lead them onto harsh ground, hold true to the beliefs of your followers, and show them the ways they may become like you. Lead by example.

Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running off to pack your bags.

Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts; or on the other hand they can be adamantine, obdurate, inviolable, stone upon stone.

Mum, still to this day, says that growing up I seemed destined to be a mix of Robin Hood, Harry Houdini, John the Baptist, and an assassin. I took it as a great compliment.

Our words become our attitudes and our attitudes become our life.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I'd have died without them [books]. Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power—not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

threads of power and domination a palimpsest of greed