Quotes About Influence

The last thing I want to do is expend my energy trying to convince my own coworkers.

EVERY ADULT IS shaped by the experience of childhood and adolescence.

When you don't stop to think about your feelings—including how they are influencing your behavior now, and will continue to do so in the future—you set yourself up to be a frequent victim of emotional hijackings. Whether you're aware of it or not, your emotions will control you, and you'll move through your day reacting to your feelings with little choice in what you say and do.

Relationship management is your ability to use your awareness of your own emotions and those of others to manage interactions successfully.

the younger generation's deficient self-management skills have little to do with things we can't change like the effects of growing up in the age of iPods and Facebook.

Emotions are contagious, meaning they spread from one or two people until there's a palpable and collective mood that you will feel at some level.

Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments or tools. They beget infrastructures and geographies.

What we see strongly guides what we do: To an extent, we enact what we imagine.

Bad has a big mouth, that's why it gets all the attention. But don't be fooled, he told them. Good doesn't need to brag. Good knows it's stronger.

You have made a difference, Rothen," she protested. "I'd have never become a magician if it were not for you. And what is this talk of your life ending? It's going to be years – decades – before you need to start planning a gravestone to outdazzle everyone else's.

Chari gave him a lofty look. "You really don't know? I've always wondered how it was that men in the rest of the world are in charge, when they're so perpetually thick." He snorted softly. "And I'm curious to know how Traitor women stay in charge when they're just as inclined to communicate by indirect hints and innuendo as women everywhere else.

To be master or servant within an hour, this is the course of temporal power.

You ever met one of those guys who, in a totally calm and composed way, can scare the shit out of you? Like an MMA fighter, or the fat Kardashian sister who married Lamar Odom?

light that guides one person will guide a hundred. Be that light.

Mr. Lincoln gained influence over men by making them feel that it was a pleasure to serve him. He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way. It distressed him to disappoint others. In matters of public duty, however, he had what he wished, but in the least offensive way.

His presence soon restored confidence.

Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.

Books always speak of other books.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

Atât de mare e puterea adev?rului care, precum binele, se r?spândeÈ™te de la sine.

El autor debería morirse después de haber escrito su obra. Para allanarle el camino al texto.

U.Eco habla de la época greco-latina]: No es que no hayan existido mujeres que filosofaran. Es que los filósofos han preferido olvidarlas, tal vez después de haberse apropiado de sus ideas /[U. Eco is talking about the Greco-Latin era]; It is not that there had not been women philosophers. It is that male philosophers have preferred to forget them, perhaps after having appropriated their ideas.

What is the hidden influence behind the press, behind all the sub-versive movements going on around us? Are there several Powers at work? Or is there one Power, one invisible group directing all the rest—the circle of the real Initiates? —Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, London, Boswell, 1924, p. 348

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.