Quotes About Influence

Eso simplemente demuestra que usted puede abandonar a un superjefe, pero el superjefe nunca lo abandonará a usted.

Ninety percent of what we believe has nothing to do with the process of thought, but comes instead from the four sources of family inheritance, individual temperament, national culture, and economic self-interest; and while we cannot wholly cast off these shackles, we should at least recognize their cramping and distorting influence upon the free process of thought.

In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.

When a man's position in life depends upon his having a certain opinion, that's the opinion he will have.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal. It's an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.

how you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something

We are going to change the world from this point onward, one way or another. Either from what we do, or what we fail to do.

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

Judged by accepted canons of statecraft, the white man towered the indisputable master of the planet.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

For a true name holds true power.