Quotes About Influence

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

În spatele oric?rui b?rbat de succes se afl? o femeie, iar in spatele ei se afl? soÅ£ia b?rbatului.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content, and a defense against unjust exactions, and the unearned tribute persistently coveted by the selfish and designing. It is right that efficiency and honesty in public service should not be sacrificed to partisan greed; and it is right that the suffrage of our people should be pure and free.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Gandhi is an example of a man who grew from being self-centered as he was learning to become a lawyer in England, to becoming more family- and social oriented in South-Africa, where he led a reformation of Indian rights, to becoming determined in helping his nation recover from British rule at which he succeeded in the end with the help of a great many people. At the end of his life Gandhi was increasingly focused on a larger picture, encasing the whole world in his vision of a peaceful future.

The pre-rational view of spirituality is irrational because it is based on pre-rational worldviews, such as the magical, the belief that individual thoughts and actions directly influence the outside world ("If I dance, it will rain"); and the mythical, which is belief in unverified dogma, a worldview that usually includes a belief in an external power that can be asked to change outcomes ("If I pray to Jesus, he will intervene in my life").

Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.

Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.

In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

il vero comando è la seduzione. E dà l'impressione a chi ubbidisce di essere salvato .

Un peu de toi est entré en moi pour toujours et m'a contaminé comme un poison.

ali strast je kao droga: u po?etku misliš da je kontrolišeš, a onda, jednog dana, moraš da priznaš da je ona ta koja upravlja tobom...

En la vida hay dos formas de decir a la gente lo que tiene que hacer: o bien dando órdenes, o bien predicando con el ejemplo y animando al grupo a seguirlo.

We have to be able to dominate the game, and make sure that we aren't dominated ourselves.

Una columna en el periódico, o un titular de portada, a veces influye más en el estado de ánimo de los jugadores que mi propia opinión. Así que tengo que ver qué titulares han sido publicados acerca de un jugador, y si tengo dos estrellas y hay tres titulares sobre uno de ellos, tendré que hablar con el jugador al que no le han dedicado ninguno.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

In life there are two ways of telling people what to do: either give them orders or set an example and encourage them to follow it. Pep is very much of the latter school of thought.

La palabra asusta al poder.

Dentro de nosotros habitaba un pequeño Goebbels que nos dictaba la forma más apropiada de reelaborar la verdad para mantener incólume tu aureola de prohombre. Éramos tus publirrelacionistas.

Con ella analizamos la obra no solo de Forsythe y Ek, sino de Pina Bausch, Maurice Béjart, John Neumeier.

La llama de un fósforo dura solo unos segundos, pero es capaz de incendiar un bosque.»