Quotes About Influence

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it -- it is the future that makes laws for us today.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

On a beau accuser l'Occident de répandre ses erreurs dans le monde entier, encore faut-il quelqu'un qui les accepte.

Bezos wanted to personally approve each equation and track the results over time. It would be his way of guiding a team's evolution.

Power perceived is power achieved.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

Canada was the most patient invading force in the world—one penny at a time, one pop singer at a time, one actor at a time. … It might take them ten thousand years to conquer the United States, but they were on the move, and the American people needed to wake up.

The thinking brain influences the body's responses and it makes a neat little loop.

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful, And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

The loudest person is not the best leader.