Quotes About Influence

I'm not sure it's possible to manipulate someone with candor and truth. I think you call that enlightenment.

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.

I guess you don't get to be commander of the Wardens by collecting bottle caps, either.

all of our investigative questioning, done when our kids might be telling the truth, may breed a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's been said that if we wrongly accuse our kids twice for the same thing, they'll set out to prove us right. You can almost hear them say with a sigh, "You think I do it anyway, so I might as well do it.

these things may be little, but they have more impact on our kids than all the lectures about honesty we could ever deliver.

We might say, "My kids used to listen to me, but now they won't. Boy, have they ever changed." Wrong again. They haven't changed one iota. They're still listening to a voice outside their heads—it's just not ours anymore.

The blue coat or the red coat? Put the mittens in the pocket or wear them? They have to decide; the little voice inside their head does the talking. The more decisions kids make, the more times we ask them questions instead of telling them what to do, and the more we discuss issues using thinking words, the less likely they'll be negatively influenced by peers later on.

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

The more you manifest a servant's heart in all you do, the more of an impact you'll have on people's lives.

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

Have you ever considered that for some people in your life, you might be the only Christian they know?

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.

According to economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who served as assistant secretary of the treasury in the Reagan administration, Dick Cheney used his two terms as vice president to fill environmental agencies, including the FDA, with corporate-friendly executives. Jeffrey

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

Once you make peace with authority you become an authority