Quotes About Influence

If Ivan was thought of as an evasive, irresolute and will-less man in later years, one has to suppose that his mother had broken his will.

How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Be careful what you do,Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,And all of the otherGods of the Congo,Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.

Dean's agent, Isabel Draesemer, says, "Jimmy came to me and asked whether marrying Beverly Wills |the young woman he was dating then] or moving in with Rogers Brackett would be better for his career.

The unspoken word we control. Once spoken, it controls us.

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America.

There was truth in the saying: the one you marry is the one you become.

On the contrary, good deed is altruistic and confident of its own quiet but wonder-working power. And if, after many years, a person's past good deed comes back to him from a different quarter, this means it has made the rounds of that many more people and the circle of its effect has grown that much wider.

Isn't it odd? Why do we always feel just as guilty when we think of our teachers as when we think of our parents? And not because of anything that happened at school -- no, not at all. It's because of what became of us later.

He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.

History will catch up with us. It isn't dead more than we are. It lives in and upon us, parasitically, like the bacteria in our intestines without which we would die. If you want to see the future, keep looking steadily behind you, because the future, no matter how we may pretend we don't know it, is history.

There is nothing worse than falling prey To someone else's confusion.

GINGER: The hand that rocks the craddle rules the world. BONGI: That's a slick little maxim — while the hand's rocking the craddle it won't be rocking the boat.

si un pueblo alcanza un gran nivel de civilización se desarrolla al mismo tiempo también un cierto grado de corrupción.

quieras convencer a alguien más poderoso que tú para que haga una cosa que consideras necesaria, hazlo de manera que crea que ha sido él quien ha encontrado la solución. Pasa

Porque el poder es llevar una máscara.

Be discerning and courageous about who plays a role in your life. Not everyone has earned the right to be in your inner circle.

IT COMES FROM SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT. Guilt trips only work with people close to you. If there's no real emotional connection, guilt trips don't work. •?YOU

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake up, they will win more than five hundred sinners.

The Hidden Persuaders

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.