Quotes About Influence

The point is, you need to distinguish between what honestly moves you and what the world is telling you should melt your heart. If something doesn't reach you on a personal level, let it go. It's hard enough dealing with everything that does.

The type of work you do, the food on your table, beverages, fragrances, music, friends and animals surrounding you, all this affects the types of spirits you attract. Any sounds, images, fragrance, foods, work, or emotions that are constantly, consistently present potentially serve as lures for spirits (or serve to keep them away).

Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?... ...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.

the quality of the conversation drives the nature of the impact. At the moment of contact, conversations have the power to transform our lives.

If telling more doesn't create the results she wants, the leader may "sell" her ideas to get people on board; when this doesn't work, she is inclined to "yell" to get results. Yet employees don't want more "vision," they want deeper engagement with leaders who can help them execute the vision.

where people sit at a table can influence conversation: a person sitting at the head of a table brings into play a dynamic of authority (cold) over the others, while people gathered around a round table promotes a feeling of warmth.

If I wanted to influence their behavior, it had to be through my own. The only real control I had was the choice of my own words and actions, including being clear about my expectations and needs.

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her—himself and her own longing—greater than a mere man

The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

our world is a product of the medieval past

In short, anyone who wonders how Western Europe helped to transform the world, for good or ill, into the global civilization that envelops us today must look to the medieval centuries for an important part of the answer.

Miss Manners' meager arsenal consists only of the withering look, the insistent and repeated request, the cold voice, the report up the chain of command and the tilted nose. They generally work.

It is impossible to deny a woman in a feeding mood. It is as if they look right through you, to that small, weak part that has been there since you were a baby and that doesn't know how to defy authority.

Developmentalists who specialize in doing the kind of research I just described are called socialization researchers. Socialization

Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.

It doesn't even matter if they out-and-out abhor me, Because when I am done with them, they'll totally adore me.

Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Here, the sea strains to climb up on the land and the wind blows dust in a single direction. The trees bend themselves all one way and volcanoes explode often Why is this? Many years back a woman of strong purpose passed through this section and everything else tried to follow.

We want playmates we can own

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.