Quotes About Influence

Dia yakin tentang itu. Bukankah itulah kebenaran? Kekuatan keyakinan seseorang merembes kepada orang-orang di sekitarnya--ke dalam tanah, udara, dan air-- sampai tidak ada yang lainnya." -Krishna

But to whom can she say this? Who will listen to her? The power she possessed even a few days ago, as the Sarkar's favourite queen, has faded.

He believes it to be so. Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

Prana can also be projected to another person for healing. Persons with a lot of excess prana tend to make other people around them feel better and livelier. However, those who are depleted tend to unconsciously absorb prana from other people. You may have encountered persons who tend to make you feel tired or drained for no apparent reason at all.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

When trying to persuade a school board to endorse the program, three is the critical number, said Irvine. "If you get one person going in to the board, he is the one crazy person. He's easy to ignore. If you get two people going in, well, the crazy guy's got a buddy, so we can still ignore [them]. But if you get three, that's a committee. It's hard to ignore a committee. A committee makes recommendations; you've at least got to consider it.

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing.

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.

What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.

It's the men, and the leadership they follow, who make all the difference.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

I learned your language and I learned your rules. I am more like you than me now.

What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own futures, but rather acceptance of life on the planet, acceptance of the grays rather than the black-and-whites, acceptance of the astonishing range of human emotion and human behavior.

You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

Americans have viewed their former presidents almost like a fourth branch of government.