Quotes About Influence

Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.

Houses can have this almost authorial power over us, seeming to ruin or make perfect our lives just by persisting in one place longer than we can. (In either case it's a power worth defeating.)

A choice architect has the responsibility for organizing the context in which people make decisions.

The combination of loss aversion with mindless choosing implies that if an option is designated as the "default," it will attract a large market share. Default options thus act as powerful nudges.

you want to nudge people into socially desirable behavior, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are better than the social norm.

The first misconception is that it is possible to avoid influencing people's choices.

An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people. On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.

Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context.

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere , watt , and fourier —when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.

One of the most impressive facts about the paranoid style, in this connection, is that it represents an old and recurrent mode of expression in our public life which has frequently been linked with movements of suspicious discontent and whose content remains much the same even when it is adopted by men of distinctly different purposes. Our experience suggests too that, while it comes in waves of different intensity, it appears to be all but ineradicable.

People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing.

Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

The essence of control is to remain hidden from view, is it not?

Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Fark?nda olmasan?z dahi etkilenirsiniz.

If they cannot have what might, what could, what should, and perhaps most awful of all what should have been, then they will dream it up instead, imagine it into being in whatever twisted or beautiful form suits, and then drive their fellows to their knees in chains by the thousand and million to pretend in chorus that it is so.

Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained.

La culture est comme le smog. Pour y vivre, il faut en respirer une partie et, inévitablement, être contaminé.

Strange how you could become a man's god without noticing.

Comme Bancroft, MacIntyre avait été un homme de pouvoir et, comme tous les hommes de pouvoir, quand il parlait de prix, vous pouviez être sûr d'une chose : C'était quelqu'un d'autre qui payait.

Many of us today owe the few attractive and redeeming features of our existence to the sixties, and Che Guevara personifies that era ... better than anyone (Castaneda 1997:410).

putting Preet Bharara in this key position, Senator Schumer was able to deliver for his Wall Street friends. I guess it is possible that Preet Bharara and the dozens of other political appointees that Senator Schumer recommended and supported, all independently decided that Wall Street executives should not be investigated or prosecuted? Or, were they following the instructions of their political benefactor, Senator Schumer?