Quotes About Influence

It may be true that organizations give individuals their power,' she answered, 'but it's what those individuals do that makes the organizations strong.

leader's authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

a leader's authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.

I made mistakes. I listened to the wrong people and let them influence my decisions. No more.

Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead.

One study of twenty years of data in the United States concluded that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."4

First, I was like, "I know it! It's dun-dun-DA-dun, dun, DA-DUN, dun DA-DUN." WYATT The rest of us were like, "Reese, dude: that's the Darth Vader song." But that got the Darth Vader song stuck in everybody's head. So whenever somebody tried to sing Beethoven's Fifth, it came out sounding like Darth Vader.

I quoted both Miranda Fleet AND Gandhi.

Take responsibility for your own world and never project blame. If you do you lose your power.

you get installed by the pragmatists as the leader, and from then on, they conspire to help keep you there.

California is a bad influence.

Positioning is the single largest influence on the buying decision.

You simply cannot spend your way into the hearts and minds of technology enthusiasts and visionaries.

The present viewpoint is that Stalin proved to be the most resolute leader, that the Soviet Union exerted undue influence in reshaping the map of postwar Europe, and that a war purportedly begun to defend the independence of small European nations ended up by sacrificing them. The question — did Stalin outwit and outjostle Roosevelt and Churchill — will remain one of the enigmas of the 20th century.

Christianity probably has been the most important institution in the world in the last 2000 years. It has achieved more for western civilisation than has any other factor; it has helped far more people than it has harmed.

There is a delicate balance between shielding people and encouraging them, and the USA perhaps went too far in one direction and Australia in the other. The Soviet Union, born in 1917 and influenced a little by the exciting Australian and New Zealand experiments, would eventually show how the umbrella, if too big and cumbersome, exposed people far more than it protected them.

Christianity has both spurred and retarded the sciences and social sciences. Indeed, most of the modern debates of profound significance were originally dialogues with or within Christianity.

In 1858, when the emperor had two missionaries executed, France sent a fleet to seize the port of Danang. French naval forces took Saigon the following year and then forced the emperor to cede the three surrounding provinces to them. Over the four decades that followed, French forces captured Hue and Hanoi and steadily extended their power and influence until the French colonial government could officially declare in 1900 that the "pacification of Indochina" was complete.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

The ability to inspire rather than enforce loyalty is a critical quality of leadership.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.