Quotes About Influence

You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

Oh, child. The world is monstrous at times, and there are those who would have you believe that you are terrible by association." "I am." "No. For you see, it flows the other direction. You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing." "Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.

I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything. Especially then.

Manipulation works so well on a personal level, I don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy." "That's actually how most rulership works," Ham mused. "What is a governement but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?

People who underestimated you were easier to manipulate.

What they do not realize—and what you must realize—is that manipulating others is something that all people do. In fact, manipulation is at the core of our social interaction.

Leadership is rarely about what we want, son. I think too few among the Alethi elite realize that fact.

Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change.

Ham rubbed his chin. "I don't know, Breeze. It's an interesting question. By influencing her emotions, did you take away her ability to choose? If, for instance, she were to kill or steal while under your control, would the crime be hers or yours?

Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

Life as a human being is about posturing and influence.

In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner.

Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man

Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them." Elend

Cómo te has hecho tan popular? —Maté a su dios

you can't avoid politics by pretending you're not part of them.

Gelenek, bizi mahkum etmek için kulland?klar? kör tan?k, yalanlar?n? paketlemek için kulland?klar? cicili kutu. Gelenek, bizi onlara hizmet ettiriyor.

Breeze shrugged. "Manipulation works so well on a personal level, i don't see why it wouldn't be an equally viable national policy.

Unfortunately, Alanik, the game takes no care for your interest. It plays you either way