Quotes About Influence

words are much stronger than I am.

Now, I'm not saying it takes a village to raise a kid." She lowered her gaze back to the baby in her arms. "But it sure does help to have a grandma.

It was napoleon who once observed how easy it is to win men over through flattery simply by bequeathing a title to them or pinning a metal or token on their chest.

We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us, shape us, and destroy us.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one member who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness. If in one class, one student lives in mindfulness, the entire class is influenced.

Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

Our message is first and foremost a nonverbal one; our message is our own action.

the simple idea that behaviors drive results.

At the end of the day, my leadership effectiveness is measured not by what I am able to accomplish, but by what those whom I lead are able to accomplish.

Generally speaking, we respond to others' way of being toward us rather than to their behavior. Which is to say that our children respond more to how we're regarding them than they do to our particular words or actions.

Friedrich Nietzsche famously said that "a 'thing' is the sum of its effects.

There's something deeper than behavior that determines our influence on others—it's whether we're in or out of the box. You don't know much about the box yet, but when we're in the box, our view of reality is distorted—we see neither ourselves nor others clearly. We are self-deceived. And that creates all kinds of trouble for the people around us.

I become an agent of change," Yusuf continued, "only to the degree that I begin to live to help things go right rather than simply to correct things that are going wrong.

The most important move consists of my putting down my resistance and beginning to act in the way I want the other person to act.

The question for you as the leader is whether you are going to create an environment that is as enjoyable for your people as it is for you—a place that they are as excited about and devoted to as you are. The best leaders are those whom people want to follow. We have a different word for people whom others follow only because of force or need. We call them tyrants.

my leadership effectiveness is measured not by what I am able to accomplish but by what those whom I lead are able to accomplish.

While it's true we can't make others change, we can invite them to change.

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

Travellers do not produce railways, but conversely, railways produce travellers.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Marriage was not only impossible but unnecessary. He had only to say "Come" and she must obey; it was her destiny.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished. (The Graveyard Reader)

We absorb and reflect what is around us. If we live in a place where people are angry and violent, then eventually we'll become like them.