Quotes About Influence

Thus, it is the listener and not the speaker who decides how powerful a threat will be.

Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power.

Don't think of persuasion as something someone does to us; persuasion is an internal process, not an external one. We persuade ourselves. A predator merely manipulates how things seem to us.

Charm is almost always a directed instrument, which, like rapport-building, has motive.

Threats betray the speaker by proving that he has failed to influence events in any other way. Most often they represent desperation, not intention.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

River mostly contributed backing vocals and handclaps, although he may have played some guitar on "Rock Out with Your Cock Out.

I think this kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think the kid's really weird.

Myths rule the world.

?tiu c? prin ceea ce scriu nu pot schimba o lume gre?it?, dar pot schimba atitudinea gre?it? a lumii fa?? de mine.

Trebuie s? tr?ie?ti în a?a fel încât ceilal?i s?-?i regrete moartea, nu s? ?i-o doreasc?.

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.

Mia," Kim said, an edge of warning in her voice signaling the end of her patience. "You're starting to act like one of those girls. Do you need to get me a gun?

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

It's something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to." "You're comparing love to a…stain?" He leans so far back in his seat that the front legs of his chair scrape off the floor. He looks very satisfied, with the crepe or with himself, I'm not sure. "Exactly.

When you watch, you are a spectator, but when you read, you're a participant.

Sometimes you don't even need to be in the same room for the damage to be done.

Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die.

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.