Quotes About Influence

Fighting over power, Peril thought. Like every dragon ever. But it's not their power, it's Darkstalker's, and they want to use it, the same way Scarlet used mine.

thoughts gain power as they take a concrete shape in our mind.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken

What are you planting in your subconscious? Are you filling it with things that will help you stick to your convictions or are you filling it with things that are going to pull you away from your faith?

Most people are generally reasonable and can rally around an idea that wasn't their own as long as they know they've had a chance to weigh in.

leaders confuse the mere transfer of information to an audience with the audience's ability to understand, internalize, and embrace the message that is being communicated.

the best way to ensure that a message gets communicated throughout an organization is to spread rumors about it.

Scare People with Sincerity

The leader is going to have to be ready to not only light the fuse of good conflict but to gently fan the flames for a while too.

Rather than coming together to make the best possible decision for the entire organization, they become lobbyers for their own constituents

I believe it's long past time that we, as individuals and as a society, reestablished the standard that leadership can never be about the leader more than the led.

Peer pressure and the distaste for letting down a colleague will motivate a team player more than any fear of authoritative punishment or rebuke.

And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.

this point is critical—no one but the head of an organization can make it healthy.

for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

What I meant was that if he could induce others to believe what he said, then for him the statement acquired some degree of truth, a reflection of their belief that it was true; and this reflected truth might grow stronger with time and repetition until it became conviction, indistinguishable from ordinary factual truth, or very nearly so.

The officer chiefly concerned, Mr Pullings, or the Maiden as the Kutaliotes called him because of his mild face and gentle manners, had but to hint that a wall, outhouse, chimney, dovecote might be in the way for it to vanish, plucked down if not by its owners then by his neighbours and the rest of the community.

men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them

all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.

Sometimes it is used to mean the mere copying of a mannerism, direct theft, and sometimes it hovers ambiguously over a wide area; but there is a strong case for the assertion that no man can be influenced—influenced to the degree of producing a valid work of art and not a mere pastiche—by anything that is not at least latent in his mind.

You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not.