Quotes About Influence

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Maybe he just saved us so he could watch us," David said. "So he could be king turd of shit mountain, and there's no longer any way for anybody to vote him out of office.

I know that the harder you try to dispel a legend the more power it gains.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one ever does notice the lives of others unless they affect their own lives, Sofia reflected.

Groupthink can also happen when a fixed-mindset leader punishes dissent. People may not stop thinking critically, but they stop speaking up.

Many females have a problem not only with stereotypes, it with other people's opinions of them in general. They trust them too much.

Estas creencias pueden ser conscientes o inconscientes, pero influyen en lo que deseamos y determinan en gran parte si lo conseguimos o no.

Not that everyone will become a leader. Sadly, most managers and even CEOs become bosses, not leaders. They wield power instead of transforming themselves, their workers, and their organization.

as Gilbert Gottlieb, an eminent neuroscientist, put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.

Then I realized something. I controlled half of the relationship, my half. I could have my half of the relationship.

Many females have a problem not only with stereotypes, but with other people's opinions of them in general. They trust them too much.

not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly.

If you are not aware of the story pattern you are living, the story plays you.

when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it.

The reason Big Pharma spends so much on small gifts as well as the big ones is well known to marketers, lobbyists, and social psychologists: being given a gift evokes an implicit desire to reciprocate.

Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.

Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.

if you want advice on what product to buy, ask someone who is still gathering information and is still open-minded.

before a victim of a scam will inch back from the precipice, he or she needs to feel respected and supported. Helpful relatives and friends can encourage the person to talk about his or her values and how those values influenced what happened while they listen uncritically. Instead of irritably asking "How could you possibly have listened to that creep?" you say, "Tell me what appealed to you about the guy that made you trust him.

She realized that all her life the teachings of those early days have influenced me and the example set by father and mother has been something I have tried to follow, which failures here and there, with rebellion at times, but always coming back to it as the compass needle to the star, -Laura Ingalls Wilder, 'As A Farm Woman Thinks.' Missouri Ruralist, August 1, 1923; Farm Journalist, p. 290.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.