Quotes About Influence

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

He believed the future of the nation was at stake, and he returned day after day to fight his war against the "slaveocracy." And Quincy voters sent him back to Congress again and again. Louisa fretted about his health and safety, but she had lost all influence over him and could do nothing to restrain him. He was unstoppable—a meteor spiraling out of control in the political firmament.

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

The Anxiety of Influence

[Poems] are necessarily about other poems; a poem is a response to a poem, as a poet is a response to a poet, or a person to his parent.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

Picasso has been many times quoted as saying good artists copy, great artists steal.

There's always one more thing you can do to influence any situation in your favor—and after that one more thing, and after that…. The more you do the more opportunities arise.

The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.

A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried "New York everywhere" in terms of the city's predominant influence.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans