Quotes About Influence

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high place who have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers because the indolence of many is the opportunity of one. Such men lead multitudes astray.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

If there was one thing from which people never recovered, it was childhood. If there was one tie that could never truly be broken, for good or for ill, it was to family.

Sabin get his way. He wanted Kovac to

It's not just children who need heroes.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.

It isn't just children who need heros.

It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it. They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.

We are what we're made to be.

The only way we learn how adults act is from the adults who raised us. The children of monsters become monstrous, too.

If you believe it, Khaldun had said, I could never convince you otherwise. If you do not, nothing I tell you could sway you. I am the one who should be asking you: Is it the truth? No

Without Karuil-Ysem, I should be less than I am.

The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.

Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe.

And sometimes those remembered images aren't even accurate; in revisiting some of the movies I discuss here, I've been surprised to realize that what I remember about a particular movie moment, the influential lesson that has stayed with me—how to kiss in the rain, what to say to my shell-shocked parents about their divorce, where in the linen closet to hide the liquor—sometimes doesn't actually exist in the film. It's a trick of memory