Quotes About Influence

we suggest that the term "manager" be replaced with the word "coach," which more accurately describes the role.

The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secular rationalism, and open markets provokes the resentment of both weaker and less-secure theocracy and autocracy alike.

Who we are, how we think, and the manner in which we act, ipsis factis, are considered obnoxious, dangerous, and unpalatable to many fundamentalist Muslims around the globe, who endure manifestations of our power and influence daily, from DVDs in Kabul to text-messaging ads in Yemen.

In emblematic fashion, America stands as a protector of the global system of market capitalism and constitutional government, and of the often reckless modernist culture that threatens so much of tribal and indigenous custom and protocols. That we are therefore often to be hated by the authoritarian, the statist, and the tribalist—and periodically to be challenged by those who want to diminish our power, riches, or influence—is regrettable but nevertheless conceded.

tragedy, comedy, and the Parthenon were not so much expressions of native genius as reflections of lots of money.

Prewar education, reputation, influence, and rank matter little when the enemy is gaining ground and very few know how to turn him back.

In 2020 nearly eight billion diverse peoples dress, listen, talk, travel, and communicate in an increasingly homogenous manner that mostly follows the examples of those in the United States, Europe, many of the English-speaking former colonies of the British Empire, and the Asian democracies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a

In every village there is a candle, the teacher; and an extinguisher, the clergy.

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.