Quotes About Influence

I believe he doesn't regret it. But still, has being with me stopped him from being him?

There are a few people who will feel her touch—a chill up a spine, a hand in the air, a poem recalled—even if they won't exactly know it.

Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.

Unless you somehow have a foot outside of your culture, the culture will swallow you whole.

If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.

Si una joven tiene belle­za, nacimiento, educación, ingenio, sentido, modales, modestia y todo ello en forma extremada, pero no tiene dinero, no es na­die y es igual que si lo necesitara todo, porque el dinero es lo único que recomienda ahora a una mujer. Los hombres tienen todo el juego en su mano.

We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.

shapes those feelings.

As we all know from experience, when it comes to shaping our decisions and our actions, feeling counts every bit as much—and often more—than thought.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

Daniel Goleman

Ninguna criatura puede volar con una sola ala. El liderazgo ejemplar requiere de la adecuada combinación entre el corazón y la cabeza, entre el sentimiento y el pensamiento. Esas son las dos alas que permiten volar a un líder.

selection focuses almost exclusively on intellectual abilities, emotional intelligence carries much more weight than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader.

liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.

your personal strengths, as a leader?

The biological influence passing from person to person suggests a new dimension of a life well lived: conducting ourselves in ways that are beneficial even at this subtle level for those with whom we connect.

One study of children's friendships found that three-year-olds say about half their friends are of the opposite sex; for five-year-olds it's about 20 percent, and by age seven almost no boys or girls say they have a best friend of the opposite sex.3

Similarly, of all emotional signals, smiles are the most contagious; they have an almost irresistible power to make others smile in return.

Si hay menos mal humor en las altas esferas, también lo habrá en el resto del escalafón.

Un estudio de la Escuela de Dirección de Empresas de la Universidad de Yale descubrió que en los grupos de trabajo la alegría y la cordialidad son lo que se transmite con más rapidez, mientras que la irritabilidad es menos contagiosa y la depresión prácticamente no se propaga

Según el estudio de Yale, el ánimo influye en la eficiencia de los trabajadores; si es positivo fomenta la cooperación, la imparcialidad y el rendimiento laboral.

But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do affects others.

Quanto mais tempo alguém ignora uma mensagem antes de por fim responder, maior o poder social relativo dessa pessoa. Se se cartografar estes tempos de reação no contexto de uma organização inteira, obter-se-á um gráfico extremamente preciso das verdadeiras posições sociais.

A capacidade que os poderosos têm de ignorar as pessoas inconvenientes (e as verdades inconvenientes) não lhes dando atenção tornou-se o centro das atenções dos psicólogos sociais, que têm encontrado relações entre o poder e as pessoas a quem damos mais e menos atenção.