Quotes About Influence

People are more likely to accept your ideas if you tell them that Barack Obama said it first.

Some people say that Money Talks and BS Walks but I say that BS Talks and Money Walks!

There is a big difference between Assigned Prestige and Achieved Prestige. Assigned Prestige will usually abuse it's power where Achieved Prestige won't.

Amy King is a true bard.

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

Freud argued that a leader emerges when a group of people - the followers - have replaced their own narcissism with that of the leader, so that their love for the leader is a subliminal form of self love.

People will passionately defend the qualities of leaders they deem charismatic, just as they would blindly defend a person they are in love with: with no concern for facts or objective evidence in support of their views.

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

The secret conversations you hold in the privacy of your own mind are shaping your destiny, little by little. With every thought that races through your mind, you are continually reinventing yourself and your future. Research indicates that the average person thinks approximately fifty thousand thoughts per day. This is either good or bad news because every thought moves you either toward your God-given potential or away from it. No thoughts are neutral.

Or we may feel successful but not be perceived that way by others. Most of us go through life borrowing someone else's definition of success rather than coming up with our own! Through repeated media exposure, we find it easy to begin using cultural success markers.

No area of your life is untouched by your thoughts.

Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges. I've felt them doing it. Words conjure. I try not to be careless about what I utter, write, sing. I'm careful about what I give voice to.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

O laço palpável entre eles era uma força com energia própria, que minava a minha.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

As with public hospitals, better public schools are likely to emerge when local teachers and parents have more say over how their schools are run. It's especially important to give parents a direct say in the running of schools rather than just an advisory role. Even

I learned long ago that a good-looking man in the right suit with a winning smile can get what he wants. All it takes is the ability to tell a story.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

I have five questions that I ask people who have power, and I recommend them to the House. If I see someone who is powerful, be it a traffic warden, Rupert Murdoch, the head of a trade union or a Member of Parliament, I ask myself these five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How can we get rid of you?" That last question is crucial.

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.