Quotes About Influence

That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades.

Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real.

What had changed things? What had made the difference? She had. All by herself.

You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life." Isana

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be.

If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

After Tolkien I went after C. S. Lewis. After Lewis, it was Lloyd Alexander. After them came Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Robert Howard, John Norman, Poul Anderson, David Eddings, Weis and Hickman, Terry Brooks, Elizabeth Moon, Glen Cook

Money is a madness, a delusion-illusion. It's not made of metal, really. It's made of time. How much is one's time worth? If one can convince enough people that one's time is an invaluable resource, then one has lots and lots of money.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

Nice father figure. Him and Bill Cosby.

As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step.

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.

What I believe doesn't matter, Mr. Dresden. What is important is that a lot of the scum out there believe in it. It affects the way they think and operate. If I could make use of your advice to solve this case, I would, the same as any other law officer.

Do you know how to really control someone...? Give them what they want. Give them what they need. Give them what no one else can give. If you can do that, they'll come back to you again and again.

The only mirrors we have are other people.

She practically glowed. Once or twice, after a compliment, she'd literally glowed, but we'd gotten that under control within a month or two.

If you had, you'd realize what an incredible force you have working on your side." "The A-Team?" "Bureaucracy," Murphy said. "I would rather have the A-Team.

The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.

Sometimes it scares me how easy it is to get people to do what you want them to do, if you know something about them.

They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on women.

It's an incredibly complex system of interweaving energy that influences good old Mother Earth around us, but it all boils down to a fairly simple concept: Shit happens.