Quotes About Influence

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

The outside shapes the inside

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

"Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

There are two aspects of life: the first is that man is tuned by his surroundings, and the second is that man can tune himself in spite of his surroundings.

Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.

Every institution is affected by the culture in which it lives and especially the culture in which it was born. That includes my church and denomination as well as yours.

The ways you and I conduct our Christian lives and the churches we attend are culturally influenced,

Because history has the functions it has—supplying practical lessons and moral examples, shaping a culture's identity and even influencing one's view of destiny—it is no surprise that a culture's history of itself will be somewhat self-serving, casting itself in the role of good guy, emphasizing its virtues and minimizing its shortcomings.

We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the Bible, in the historical church, and in our own consciences—to enlighten us. Since modernity rejected all these things, it's no wonder that it abounded in as much evil and discord as it has.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

it was that voice. his voice. the voice that wrapped around you like a warm day.

When Clara played the piano, it wasn't magic. It didn't charm birds from the sky or pull the sun from the clouds. It didn't stop time or brighten the moon. But it did make people listen. When she played, people stopped. Some even romoved their hats and quietly said, Ah! It wasn't magic. But it was close

What, then, might deodorants and perfumes have done to our ability to smell the signals emitted by our bodies? What might lives filled with clocks have done to our sense of time? What have airplanes done to our sense of space, or the internet to our sense of competence? What have maps done to our sense of direction, or schools to our sense of family? You get the point.

If culture was not paying its way, the genes whose expression it is modifying would either go extinct or evolve to be as immune to culture as an oak tree.