Quotes About Influence

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

It's the close emotional bond we have with our children that makes them want to live lives we, their parents, can respect.

resist keeping company with those who merely feed off the negative emotions of others.

Successful nemawashi enables change to be the result of consensus among the parties.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

Every attitude we assume, ever word we utter, and every act we undertake establishes us in relation to others.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.

How New York has fallen off during the last forty years! Its intellect and culture have been diluted and swamped by a great flood-tide of material wealth … men whose bank accounts are all they rely on for social position and influence.