Quotes About Influence

To give comfort to the old, to have the trust of my friends, and to have the young seeking to be near me

you govern effectively," Confucius replied, "what need is there for killing? If you want to be truly adept (shan ), the people will also be adept. The excellence (de ) of the exemplary person (junzi ) is the wind, while that of the petty person is the grass. As the wind blows, the grass is sure to bend.

Speaking (dao )" is a "guiding discourse (dao )." Said a different way, language is both performative and prescriptive; it both does something to the world and recommends how it should be.

If you yourself are correct, even without the issuing of orders, things will get done; if you yourself are incorrect, although orders are issued, they will not be obeyed

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Charm is getting people to say yes without ever having to ask them a question.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

After all, Americans can be terrifying.

How much of an effect on history can an animal have? A big one. Look at Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and "the little gentleman in the black fur coat" who'd killed King William the Third when his horse stepped in the mole's front door. And Richard the Third standing on the field at Bosworth and shouting, "My kingdom for a horse!

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

It takes very little to govern good people.

That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.

But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever

Pami?taj, ?e to, co wpuszczasz do g?owy, pozostaje w niej na zawsze.

Names are important. They set the parameters for the rules of engagement. The origin of language is in the single sound that designates the other person. Before you do something to them.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on.