Quotes About Influence

I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.

One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.

Men have died from time to time, and words have eaten them, but not for love.

You taught me language, and my profit on't Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language!

Por un extraño azar la próvida Fortuna, que ahora me acompaña, ha traído hasta aquí a mis enemigos, y por presciencia veo que mi cenit depende de un astro sumamente favorable y que, si no aprovecho su influencia, mi suerte decaerá. Cesen ya tus preguntas. Te duermes. Es benigna soñolencia. Abandónate: no puedes evitarla. (Próspero)

Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.

M.O.A. I. doth sway my life.

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

During that spring afternoon's jaunt in the company of one of Poland's most influential anti-Semites, her admirer Walter Dürrfeld, like his host, uttered not a word about Jews. Six years later almost all that she heard from Dürrfeld's lips concerned Jews and their consignment to oblivion.

Once the fight-or-flight reaction gets triggered, the blood flows from our brain to our limbs, and our ability to think clearly diminishes. We forget our purpose and often act exactly contrary to our interests. When we react, we give away our power—our power to influence the other person constructively and to change the situation for the better. When we react, we are, in effect, saying no to our interests, no to ourselves.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

Government got too big—too powerful. Agencies like the IRS had entirely too much power.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

posicionamiento", un concepto popular que se utiliza para indicar cómo debe ubicarse la gente en la mente de otros

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...

Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: 'entertainment' movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are.

By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.

To choose, to take, with clear judgement and open eyes; to count the cost and pay it; to regret nothing; to go forward, cutting losses, refusing to complain, accepting complete responsibility for their own decisions - this was the code which she attempted to impress upon the children who came under her influence - the code on which she set herself to act.

God can use the jawbone of an ass!