Quotes About Influence

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

It's wrong to do NOTHING when you have the power to do SOMETHING.

I'm Oracle, I know everybody.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Even a small group of people can change the galaxy.

Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world.

A SWORD IS NEVER A KILLER, IT IS A TOOL IN THE KILLER'S HANDS." —Seneca

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

He radiated a calm focus--like he knew who he was and where he was going. He was a steady mooring in a sea of change. Hr was honest and kept his word, and he was unrelentingly fair. It made people want to follow him.

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.

Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas, under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

It's not just the real, but the perspective of real that counts. If people perceive you as weak, then you are weak, even if it's a survival strategy.