Quotes About Influence

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when 10 percent of the people in a group believe in an idea, the majority of the people will adopt their belief.

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Khomeini and Khamenei were everywhere; on giant billboards at the roadside, as vast lurid murals on concrete apartment blocks and, less impressively, on sagging vinyl banners outside schools and mosques. With their almost identical appearance and surnames they reminded me of an Islamic Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives of the Tintin books. But that, I feared, was where the similarity ended.

And in recent years Tony Blair had hardly helped, with his constant Iran fear-mongering. I see the impact and influence of Iran everywhere, I remembered him saying, his glassy, maniacal eyes staring out from behind a lectern at some international summit. Really, it was no wonder it was hard to get a visa.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -- the power to inspire.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

In this world, a man must be either anvil or hammer.

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

Will is the pimp of appetite.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.