Quotes About Influence

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?

Once ye accept that they huv that right, ye'll join them in the search fir this holy grail, this thing that makes ye tick. Ye'll then defer tae them, allowin yersel tae be conned intae believin any biscuit-ersed theory ay behaviour they choose tae attach tae ye. Then yir theirs, no yir ain; the dependency shifts from the drug to them.

People were deferential to power. You just had to make the right noises.

Money makes the man a beast.

Na?i ?e se drugi papa, ali nikad više ne?e biti Boti?elija.

Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth...To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.' - Those Who Love, p. 177

The most important thing to do is to make the judge want to decide things your way, Darrow advised one of his younger partners. They are human beings, moved by the same things that move other human beings. The point of law merely give the judge a reason for doing what you have already made him want to do.

Puterea oamenilor seam?n? foarte mult cu desenul. Întreaga perspectiv? se modific? o dat? cu schimbarea unghiului de vedere, È™i asta nu depinde de subiect, ci de cel care priveÈ™te.

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

You are the only one responsible for your own wants.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again.

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.

No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Habrá otras crisis en el porvenir, cuando el poder del dinero se haya convertido en una fuerza muerta como es ahora la religión.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

From the radiating point of Siwenna, the forces of the Empire reached out cautiously into the black unknown of the Periphery. Giant ships passed the vast distances that separated the vagrant stars at the Galaxy's rim, and felt their way around the outermost edge of Foundation influence.

Advertisement! A device for forcing the unwilling into line. Did it matter to a ground vehicle manufacturer whether a given individual felt an original or spontaneous desire for his product? If the prospect (that was the word) could be artificially persuaded or cajoled into feeling that desire and acting upon it, would that not be just as well?