Quotes About Influence

The ability to persuade is the secret of the cosmos."

The main questions in frames are Who are you to the person you are conversing with? and Who is the person to you? Frames determine who you are to each other in group contexts, such as social circles and night games. Every reaction has an impact on the interaction's story or deeper significance. The interaction's tone is established by them. However, every reaction also shapes how the receiver is perceived by others; your acts will shape how the receiver sees you."

The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect..."

High school, college, the office, evil cults, everywhere you go, there's that social hierarchy to contend with.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets ' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.

One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline—whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates—is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.

I've never had an angel on my right shoulder; I was born with a pointy-tailed devil, who crept back and forth across my neck to get his whispers into both my ears.

The movement was in me, but it wasn't me. It was another little something, a someone, willfully choosing to flex his flippery future arms, or whatever it was he had by then. It was a choice, but I hadn't made it. It was inside me, and mine, but I did not control it.

She's stepped right in and owned me, and yet, it does not feel like surrender. There is choice inside surrender. This is something much more basic.

Her father evicts Vina from her body when he makes her body a bad place to be. He is killing Vina in those minutes, and he believes he has this right. Emily Birch is now deep inside the Second South. Her family helped make it, and her father has maintained it. He is it, and she is him.

In America, however, foreign policy could be determined by popular appeal, through advertising and informational campaigns aimed at the common man who voted.

They were the first who understood that all that was possible was a truth shared by the dominant people, the group or subgroup or family in power.

Principal's no different from the rest—he orders and so he is.

All who read us are read.

Carl Jung wrote that nothing affects children more than the unlived lives of their parents.

It's especially important to a couple's well-being and longevity if the husband has sufficiently separated from his parents and is able to prioritize his wife's happiness over his own mother's.20 Men who are too tied to their own parents may give their parents too much say over how to conduct their households.

Jesus calls his disciples to exert a double influence by bringing light into its darkness. For it is one thing to stop the spread of evil; it is another to promote the spread of truth, beauty and goodness.

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The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and which had been largely ignored by the American military. These CIA leaders saw that an inexpensive—in American money and lives, at least—proxy war could be a template for fights in other places around the world, at a time when presidents were looking for ways to continue the Cold War without going through Congress or committing ground troops.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

the Equals "stressed the importance of women because of the influence exercised by 'this interesting sex.'" They were thought especially important in attracting soldiers to the revolutionary cause.

High-level creative exchange depends on both hierarchical and fluid power relationships.