Quotes About Influence

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

Whenever I let my mind wander, and wonder who I would like to have been if I had not been born C. Everett Koop, the person who comes to mind most frequently is Paul Brand.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

It is more than just maintaining or even growing a church, but believing your church can reach an entire city or a region; believing they can make a difference.

Servant leadership is passionate service to the mission and to those who join the leader on that mission.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

Eminence engenders enemies.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

By listening with active openness, they help other people to articulate their own values more clearly and so to bring a richer vision of value into the relationship. "Under the relational conception of power, what is truly for the good of anyone or all of the relational partners is not a preconceived good. The true good is not a function of controlling or dominating influence. The true good is an emergent from deeply mutual relationships."6

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

There is no better means of promoting another person's change of heart than allowing our own heart to be changed.

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

While it would not be accurate to say that we were influenced by public opinion," testified Admiral Toyoda

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.

Words like "Society" and "State" are so concretized that they are almost personified. In the opinion of the man in the street, the "State," far more than any king in history, is the inexhaustible giver of all good; the "State" is invoked, made responsible, grumbled at, and so on and so forth. Society is elevated to the rank of a supreme ethical principle; indeed, it is even credited with positively creative capacities.

Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.

For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors.