Quotes About Influence

Today, for most kids in the United States and Canada, kids' primary attachment is to other kids. "For the first time in history," Neufeld observes, "young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. .

What does it mean to assert your authority as a parent? It doesn't necessarily mean being a tough disciplinarian. Among other things, it means ensuring that the parent-child relationship takes priority over the relationships between the child and her or his same-age peers.

more than parents. For most of the history of the human race, children have learned culture from the adults. That's why childhood and adolescence have to last so long in our species. But in the United States today, kids no longer learn culture from the grown-ups. American kids today have their own culture, a culture of disrespect, which they learn from their peers and which they teach to their peers.

Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

Ministri, deputati, professori, artisti, finanzieri, industriali, quella che si suole chiamare classe dirigente. E che cosa dirigeva in concreto, effettivamente? Una ragnatela nel vuoto, la propria labile ragnatela. Anche se di fili d'oro.

Il potere è sempre altrove. Il potere non è nel consiglio comunale di Palermo, il potere non è nel Parlamento della Repubblica: il potere è altrove.

Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

His mother might claim to be a loyal light in the shadows, but he was determined to shove her even further into the shadows.

Francois I had commanded that the French speak one tongue, and the Langue d'oil triumphed over the Langue d'oc.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage.

Whoever was in her presence trembled before her, and the more she made herself feared, the more it delighted her, the more it seemed to make her feel happy.

You are the sort of man who could quite ruin a woman

What could you do to make a difference in the world?

Ask yourself if you are leaving a trail that others may want to follow. Are you leaving a legacy of accomplishment? What mark will you leave on your industry? Your friends and family?

Dr. Carter G. Woodson who said: "If you can determine what a man shall think, you will never have to concern yourself with what he will do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you will never have to compel him to seek an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you can make a man feel justly an outcast, you will never have to order him to the back door. He will go there himself, and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one!

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality

the value of a personal fortune is better understood in relation to the total gross national product of an individual's era. By that measure, Carnegie was worth $112 billion in his day, far ahead of Bill Gates ($85 billion), Sam Walton ($42 billion), or Warren Buffett ($31 billion).

Most important, perhaps there was a way to do so without browbeating or scolding, or mounting a soapbox. Perhaps he could get them without their knowing they were got. If he could only find the way.