Quotes About Influence

You mean . . . I could demand that they give Peeta immunity? And they'd have to agree to it?" "I think you could demand almost anything and they'd have to agree to it.

become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. The person

think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes.

I realize that's the way, the way of selfish people. They want to control everyone else, but when it's them, they want their own rules.

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.

Well, that's the thing about our past—it shapes our future.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

I want you to understand that simply saying your name is an act of power.

The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This

People are looking at you, Katniss. You've given them an opportunity." ~Gale Hawthorne

In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt.

It is a very hard thing to understand, but you will come to learn in time that nothing in the universe has power over you until you allow it to exercise such a power.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind.

The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he can do anything and everything he likes; that personality put upon anything will make it work.

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.

The mind of the man who receives gifts is acted on by the mind of the giver, so the receiver is likely to become degenerated. Receiving gifts is prone to destroy the independence of the mind, and make us slavish. Therefore, receive no gifts.

Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Reggaeton is something else - it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don't believe will ever die.