Quotes About Influence

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.

Rihanna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.

A headline-grabbing 2005 British study revealed that girls aged six to twelve enjoyed torturing, mutilating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they liked dressing them up for the prom. What

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where want ends and coercion begins.

A self-confident person isn't boastful or pushy but is secure with herself in a way that inspires confidence in others. She values herself regardless of her physical attributes or individual talents, understanding that honor and character are what really matter.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Have you ever realised that if a person can make you angry, that person actually controls you.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.