Quotes About Influence

This took the shape of government announcements paid for by the Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity (DAVP). While 'liberally granting advertisements to so-called "friendly" periodicals', the DAVP withdrew their favours from those deemed critical of the government.

From the time of the Congress split, Mrs Gandhi had worked to place loyal individuals in position of authority, and to make public institutions an instrument of her will.

The All-India Congress Committee had once elected representatives from the states, these in turn sent up by Congress bodies at the taluk and district levels. More significantly, the chief ministers of Congress-ruled states were chosen by the local legislators alone. However, after the Congress split in 1969, Mrs Gandhi was able to place her own candidates in key positions.

Eighteen applications were received for a licence to make small cars; only that of the prime minister's son was approved, despite his having no past experience in this regard.

The Congress chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal, gave Sanjay's Maruti car company 300 acres of land at a giveaway price.

All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.

As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.

Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!

Do you influence your emotions or are you influenced by your emotions?

Everybody listens to Nobody!

For a presenter, the chief objective is to enthral the audience, than just pleasing them for the sake of it, and that's a tough task Mind You!

Manipulation is application of intelligence on people to achieve a pre-meditated outcome solely benefitting the former than latter.

Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!"

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

The day Man ignores woman in entirety, they will loose their control and supremacy in society and that is one of the greatest fears that women are constantly aware of

The Good thing about Money is that it can buy just anything. The bad thing about it is that it can buy 'YOU' too!

Expository preaching is the contemporization of the central proposition of a biblical text that is derived from proper methods of interpretation and declared through effective means of communication to inform minds, instruct hearts, and influence behavior toward godliness. The

To understand a thing is to gain the power to change it.

In seeking to uncover the causes of an event, ask yourself: who stands to benefit from it?

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.

The meaning of a thing is the impact it has on the world around it, she thought. The meaning of a life is the impact that life has on the world.

The worst atrocities… Maybe half of them arose directly because the powerful had a monopoly or a near-monopoly on some key capability.

The way to find the cause of an event is to understand who had the most to gain from it.