Quotes About Influence

You underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

Where once kings and warriors shaped the world, now quiet men in offices will do the same—and do it far, far more effectively.

You can hear my thoughts?" Wax asked. When you have the earring in, yes. I gain the ability to hear you from Preservation, and the ability to speak to you from Ruin. Each had only one half. I always found it puzzling.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

To believe that the rich do not use their money to buy influence and promote policies they like is not simply to be naïve. Such a stance contradicts the key principles of economics as well as the ways in which the rich people have amassed their wealth—surely not by throwing it around while expecting no return on it.

Education may not have much influence on what happens because many rich societies are already near the upper limit in terms of quantity of education (measured by the number of years of schooling) and possibly even in terms of quality of schooling that can be offered; in addition, many of those employed in service jobs are already overqualified for what they do.

Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?

I've learned that power is not bad, but the abuse of power or using power over others is the opposite of courage; it's a desperate attempt to maintain a very fragile ego.

Perfectionism never happens in a vacuum. It touches everyone around us. We pass it down to our children, we infect our workplace with impossible expectations, and it's suffocating for our friends and families. Thankfully, compassion also spreads quickly. When we're kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others.

You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room.

Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.

I've come to the conclusion that the way we engage with social media is like fire—you can use them to keep yourself warm and nourished, or you can burn down the barn. It all depends on your intentions, expectations, and reality-checking skills.

Being "in control" isn't always about the desire to manipulate situations, but often it's about the need to manage perception.

Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.

Real power is basically the ability to change something if you want to change it. It's the ability to make change happen. Real power is unlimited—we don't need to fight over it because there is plenty to go around. And the great thing about real power is our ability to create it. Real power doesn't force us to take it away from others—it's something we create and build with others.

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change.

The solution is getting totally clear on the people whose opinions actually matter.

Advertising is an over $200 billion a year industry. We are each exposed to over 3000 ads a day. Yet, remarkably, most of us believe we are not influenced by advertising.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?" As

power with multiplies individual talents, knowledge, and resources to make a larger impact.