Quotes About Influence

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

Who forces himself on others, is to himself a load.

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

Too young to bring about change, we brought about disturbance.

My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.

I got to know [teen music] as we absorb music in passing but can remember only its seriousness and weight.

It seems that many people who are deficient in character have an overabundance of charm. I

was for a fleeting instant the pachyderm Pied Piper.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.

It is as well to avoid illusions of control, but in the end all we can do is act as if we can influence events. To do otherwise is to succumb to fatalism.

El poder para hacer daño es poder para negociar. La capacidad para explotarlo se llama diplomacia, una diplomacia perversa, pero diplomacia».

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

el peligro del «amable robot», una criatura nacida en la sociedad de masas con la ilusión de la libertad, pero incapaz de influir en nada en las grandes estructuras del poder. «Entre la escasa conciencia del hombre y los temas de nuestro tiempo, parece existir un velo de indiferencia. Su voluntad parece anestesiada; su vitalidad, encogida».

La pretensión de conseguir un poder relativo», apuntaba Timothy Crawford, «se relaciona más con la tarea de restar y dividir que con la de añadir y multiplicar».

El mayor poder es el que consigue que se haga lo que pretende sin que nadie se dé cuenta.

Un ejemplo muy influyente de eso fue el uso que Sheldon Wolin hizo de Kuhn para cuestionar la supuesta objetividad de la tendencia «conductista» en las ciencias políticas, una disciplina que se decía seguidora del mismo camino metodológico de las ciencias físicas. «Hasta cierto punto», dijo Wolin, lo que importa no es cuál es el verdadero paradigma, sino cuál es el que tiene que implantarse».

the art of creating power