Quotes About Influence

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

American television really is pathetic.

Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

My characterization influences your brain.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Her biggest influence in persuading Noah was in prayer. When Noah was blinded by his own stubbornness, she would ask Elohim to soften his heart. Elohim had a way of opening Noah's eyes better than anyone else could. She did not believe that Elohim had abandoned them. She was sure he was planning something very significant to make his point. It would take something big to transform Noah to accomplish his calling. Elohim was like that.

Hearts and souls are moved by story and he who controls the cultural narrative controls the people.

Demons could only possess those who invited them in. But unfortunately for Israel, many Jews violated the first commandment of Yahweh's Ten Words from Sinai, and worshipped the Canaanite gods. This failure gave the spiritual forces of this present darkness a grip of influence over Israel. She was infested with demons.

As they settled, he then heard Annas say, "Why did you downplay the Nazarene? You know his influence is on the rise. And the signs and wonders are not being discounted as 'parlor tricks.' They are spreading like wildfire. You heard what the prefect said, if this rebellion keeps up, Rome will come and take away both our place and our nation.

the story Lilith told us about being the first wife and daughters of Adam?" "Lies from the pit of Sheol," said Diya. "That She-demon knew that the best lie is patterned after the truth. You conquer a people by conquering their narrative — subverting it. It has been her goal all along to control the world.

It matters not he who rules, but she who counts the money.

1Enoch has had more influence on the New Testament than has any other apocryphal or pseudepigraphic work.[45]

It could not be more perfect. Ba'al, the very god of the Anakim, Israel's ultimate enemy, was already undermining Yahweh's inheritance through spiritual adultery, and they had not even yet faced off in confrontation. "Well then," said Sheshai with a pleased smirk, "We must certainly let the influence of Ba'al do his work on these people, And we will see which god ends up dispossessing which people after all.

They were just…looking for something to believe in. They weren't much into thinking for themselves. So I did their thinking for them.

I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But people must be free to say them anyway. We protect free speech not because words are harmless, but because they are powerful.

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them," Jim said later. "They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

We looked up to [Frederick Douglass] almost as we do to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. —Congressman George W. Murray

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.