Quotes About Influence

I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

The circumstance is fundamental to defining the job (and finding a solution for it), because the nature of the progress desired will always be strongly influenced by the circumstance.

Make no mistake: a culture happens, whether you want it to or not. The only question is how hard you are going to try to influence it.

even if you're doing it with the best of intentions, if you find yourself heading down a path of outsourcing more and more of your role as a parent, you will lose more and more of the precious opportunities to help your kids develop their values—which may be the most important capability of all.

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.

We all have threads in our lives, continuous strands that reach back years, decades, entire lifetimes. The threads are what help define who we are.

He'd followed in the footsteps of a man who knew the way.

University politics," declared Oop, "doesn't care about liberal traditions or any other kind of traditions.

Your kind of politics is dead. They are dead because any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology. And you haven't got mob psychology anymore. You can't have mob psychology when people don't give a damn what happens to a thing that's dead already—a political system that broke down under its own weight.

Your kind of politics is dead. They are dead because any tinhorn with a loud mouth and a brassy front could gain power by appeal to mob psychology.

He is hated, because he teaches hate. We obey him because we must. He holds our minds in the hollow of his hand.

A propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks convincingly

All things fear Man. Man has made all things to fear him.

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?

You could sometimes guide people's opinions, but if they didn't want to buy what you had to sell you could shout yourself hoarse trying to make them do it and it would never work.

All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.

Especially politics; that was the best trough to wallow in. You could get your snout, eyes, head and front hooves in that mess of muck and have a fine old time splashing around. It was an inexhaustible subject to devour, a swill with a little of everything in it, because everything, according to Judd, was political.

Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.

He wouldn't be remembered well.

Muck held the whip hand.

She's got powers," said de Bono, taking off his spectacles and surveying the terrain ahead. "Most women have, of course.

Nobody's allowed to come and mourn, you see. Out of sight, out of mind: that's the idea. Of course, that's not the way it works, is it? People forget prime ministers, but they remember murderers.