Quotes About Influence

I had erroneously become convinced that I had the power to alter my reality, when in fact it was demonic spirits that were at work in my life.

There is a possessiveness in the idealist's attitude . . . . "You are to be like me. I will shape you, or hammer you, into the shape of my ideal. You must enjoy my pleasures. Your tastes must coincide with mind. You must have only my values. You must be restricted by my limitations

No league or conference or committee or group can put life into the world: it can only be born into the world, and only individuals can give birth.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.

In any group, you've got those who love you, those who hate you and those who are undecided. The key to leadership is to keep the ones who hate you away from those who are undecided.

The secret of managing is to keep the folks who hate you away from the ones who haven't made up their minds yet.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

People are more likely to object to nudges that appeal to unconscious or subconscious processes.

As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the impression of agency, even to their authors. William Blake wrote of his works "tho I call them Mine I know they are not Mine," and characterized his process of writing as a kind of dictation, "without Premeditation or even against my Will." Musicians sometimes speak in exactly the same way.

There is widespread support for nudges that are taken to have legitimate ends and to be consistent with the interests and the values of most choosers.

Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. "It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.

In the United States, unmoored Markovian money can be manipulated at will by the Federal Reserve in the interests of its sponsors in government and their pseudo-private cronies.

Government is not the problem but rather the prize, and right now it sits in a trophy case on Wall Street.

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A drop of ink may make a million think.

the Bible "outlives, out lifts, outloves, outreaches, outranks, outruns all other books."4

People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.