Quotes About Influence

Here was a dyed-in-the-brine Cape Cod, Massachusetts, man who dropped into New York State on a carpetbag and used his slain brother's gilded connections to help win a Senate seat.

THE SHOULDS ARE defined by the family destiny, the press of the culture, and/or the prejudices of our peers.

Ignorant of our own and our mate's inner life, we are ruled largely by external forces at this stage.

What power has law where only money rules.

what has been taken by power can not be returned without power./or can be only returned by power.

Lord Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Graph of your relationship follows the graph of your wealth in this total commercial world.

The most powerful power is the power to empower the powerless.

Unlike in autocracy, people are more responsible than the leaders in democratic system of governance as leaders reflect their voters' thoughts and actions.

En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m'enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.

Business is in itself a power.

We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man. —GILBERT CHESTERTON

Jefferson belonged to that large class if southerners--including the best of them, nen like Washington and Madison--who knew that slavery was evil, but felt they could not cut back in the evil without cutting the ground out from under them. They knew, as well, that they would lose their influence over other southerners if they went against the system off which they lived.

Words had to complete the work of the guns.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that which you manifest is before you.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.