Quotes About Influence

Kissinger once said of Israel's Moshe Dayan that he was "a brilliant manipulator of people and yet emotionally dependent on them.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

people are more likely to admire your work if you're able to keep them from feeling jealous of you.6

Leaders aren't just the few famous people who dominate the news or find their place in history books. They don't always represent the majority. They aren't always popular. They don't always win, and they aren't always remembered. Leaders such as Pauli Murray, brave and obscure men and women who act on their convictions even though they fail time and time again, sometimes change the course of history.

The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products.

Indeed, it is worth asking whether this is not a feature that is more often found than not in the greatest books. They do not mainly see to add to our knowledge: they do not disdain shocking us because what they most want to do is change us.

I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.

Something about the structure of my brain, its associative, porous, open-endedness, was defenseless against the ever-enlarging Web. Every video, news story, photo, email, stock chart, sexy picture, and five-day weather forecast was an enticement to step into the forest, and once I was two or three bread crumbs down the path, the witches had me, I was in their oven.

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

Let me speak to your boss I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why.

The person who controls history controls their fate. The man who can tell you what happened, or did not happen, is lord and master of all he surveys.

The law is a flexible thing—on both sides of the line—influenced by circumstance, character, and, of course, wealth or lack of same.

The most dangerous people in the world were men like Desmond Bell. They became SS officers and postmasters; church deacons and cops. In their minds there was always a marching band playing the tune that they stepped to.

how many teachers since Socrates actually lived what they taught?

Our shadow leaders, like some evil wizards of oz, give out grants and grammy's, oscars and lines of tenure, and magically our revolutionary thinkers become grousing members of the establishment.

Two of the deacons were just boys. I guess they had to join a gang one way or another, and the church won out.

My experience has been that at its best, news reporting is an approximation of the slant on the truth that reporters, editors, and advertisers want the public to know.

If the government was ever to be destroyed, Polk concluded, it would be by "the alluring and corrupting influence of executive patronage.

The American imperialists go so far as to take the folk music, jazz, and soul music of oppressed black people and transform this into American propaganda over the Voice of America beamed at Africa.

The fact of the matter is that the most profound reasons for the economic backwardness of a given African nation are not to be found inside that nation.

Ancient Africa was int he mainstream of human history.