Quotes About Influence

There's nothing better than a rigged election, so long as you're the one rigging it.

The difference between doing a good job and doing a lousy job is driven by how many people a leader has to keep happy.

The choice between enhancing social welfare and enriching a privileged few is not a question of how benevolent a leader is. Honorable motives might seem important, but they are overwhelmed by the need to keep essential supporters happy, and the means of keeping them happy depends on how many need rewarding.

En política, llegar al poder nunca tiene que ver con hacer lo correcto. Siempre tiene que ver con hacer lo que conviene.

American trade represented one third of the British economy).

Often, the King would dance himself, rolling his scapulars and weaving his steps around the skulls of his favourite victims. Or he would amuse himself by teaching little boys to chop heads, and when they made a mess of it shout, 'Not that way, you fool! Think of chopping wood!' 

Tierra del Fuego - The Land of Fire. The fires were the camp-fires of the Fuegian Indians. In one version Magellan saw smoke only and called it Tierra del Humo, the Land of Smoke, but Charles V said there was no smoke without fire and changed the name.

All of us tend to gravitate to the familiar, even when the familiar is unhealthy or destructive. We are drawn to what we were raised with.

We have talked a lot about how the actions of caregivers influence the child, but it's important to remember that those caregivers were also children influenced by their caregivers. The effects of trauma stretch far and wide across generations and across communities, and it's important to always come back to our central question with compassion: What happened to you?

Human social life is built on this ability to "reflect" each other and respond to those reflections, with both positive and negative results.

Your own experiences and the echoes of your ancestors' experiences influence the way you think, feel, and behave.

Creamos recuerdos, pero los recuerdos también nos crean a nosotros, y se trata de un proceso dinámico en constante cambio que está sujeto a sesgos e influencias de diversas fuentes ajenas al acontecimiento actual que tenemos "almacenado". Lo que experimentamos primero filtra lo que vendrá después.

Adversity impacts the developing child. Period. What the impact will be, when it may manifest, how it may be "buffered"-we can't always say. But developmental trauma will always influence our body and brain.

los niños pequeños son muy susceptibles a la espiral de consecuencias de las elecciones que nosotros —y después ellos— hacemos, tanto para bien como para mal.

All of us want to know that what we do, what we say, and who we are matters.

And since the brain is the part of us that allows us to think, feel, and act, whenever I'm trying to understand someone, I wonder about that person's brain. Why did they do that? What would make them act that way? Something happened that influenced how their brain works.

When you've been groomed to be compliant, confrontation in any form is uncomfortable because you were never taught that you have the right to say no; in fact, you were taught that you can't say no.

people. We project that expectation in our interactions with others and thereby actually elicit good from them. Our internal view of the world becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; we project what we expect, and that helps elicit what we expect.

Children, especially, are very contagious to the emotions of the people around them. Think of you and your grandmother in the story you just shared. You felt fear. Her fear was passed to you—you "caught" her fear and carried it into your generation.

Generational transmission of bias can be disrupted. We can stop passing hateful, destructive, and false beliefs to the next generation, but to do so we must be exceedingly intentional about all of the ways we influence our babies, toddlers, and young children. We have to think about the images they see in the magazines we read, the people we welcome into our homes, the ways we treat others who look different from us.

Our first experiences create the filters through which all new experiences must pass.

Poverty of relationship can disrupt normal development, influence how the brain works, put you at risk for physical and mental health problems. It's absolutely not good for you. Oprah: Especially for children.

las fuerzas o las vulnerabilidades genéticas se ven aumentadas o mitigadas en el contexto de las primeras relaciones de un niño.

to understand someone, I wonder about that person's brain. Why did they do that? What would make them act that way? Something happened that influenced how their brain works.