Quotes About Influence

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Zij zal nog leven als ik dood zal zijn, ze zal me misschien niet vergeten zijn als ik uit de voetnoten ben verdwenen.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

The great renewal of the theological understanding of the Lutheran doctrine of justification in German and Scandinavian Lutheranism since 1917 has certainly influenced preaching. But it was not enough to keep us from offering sacrifices in the house of God to the heathen gods of nation and race.

the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

One way or the other, she had no doubt she would succeed in influencing her husband and obtaining the independence she so longed for.

Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel's wealth and warped by it.

if they could only see how impossibly removed the two of them were from any sort of actual power.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but it is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

I am a financier in a city ruled by financiers. My father was a financier in a city ruled by industrialists.

Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

During my tests and interviews at Bevel Investments I first learned something I had the chance to corroborate many times throughout my life: the closer one is to a source of power, the quieter it gets. Authority and money surround themselves with silence, and one can measure the reach of someone's influence by the thickness of the hush enveloping them.

Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Het landschap van onze kindertijd laat sporen achter voor onze blik op het landschap gedurende de volgende jaren.