Quotes About Influence

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.

What the government will or will not do is finally beside the point. If people do not have the government they want, then they will have a government that they must either change or endure. Finally

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.

There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

Whereas his father only ruled him, Aunt Molly owned him outright, at least when he was in the house where she could get at him.

the modern world abounds with heralds of a better future and with debunkers happy to point out that Yeats was silly like us or that Thomas Jefferson may have had a Negro slave as a mistress--and so we are disencumbered of the burden of great lives, set free to be as cynical or desperate as we please.

We assume that we can have an exploitive, ruthlessly competitive, profit-for-profit's-sake economy, and yet remain a decent and a democratic nation, as we still apparently wish to think ourselves. This simply means that our highest principles and standards have no practical force or influence and are reduced merely to talk.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

And so there is the Territory of self-righteousness. It is easy to assume that we do not participate in what we are not in the presence of. But if we are members of a society, we participate, willy-nilly, in its evils.

we had better bear in mind also something that I am not the first or the smartest writer to notice: that for the making and sustenance of movements hatred is more effective than love.

By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters.

We spend our lives trying to fill the empty places in our souls that lobe never got to, where there wasn't enough water to reach our roots; its those deficits that often have the biggest impacts on us and that shape us the most. Whatever the void created in those early formative years, I think it's part of who I became as an adult