Quotes About Influence

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;

It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in general resemble a cellar junk-shop of chronologies, epaulettes, bad drawings, and silly tales, and are a striking instance of the corrupting influence of State management of education, by which the mediocre, nay the absolutely empty, is made to survive)….

when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".

Great is truth, and all powerful.

English, like any other natural language, has two major communicative functions. The first is an ideational function: to get an idea across, as when I say, It's raining, or I love you. It also has an interactive-interpersonal function: to influence the attitudes and behaviours of others, and, in a myriad ways, change an aspect of the world's states of affairs in the process

I've got a voice of a dead man in my head who is trying to take over my body!

Oh, that's just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me "we," when I sleep at night you're driving around in my truck, and you think it's a bad idea to mess with other people's lives?

Los perros no pueden decidir con quién viven. Las personas decidían nuestro destino.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back?

One of the best ways to inspire another person to desirable action is to relate a true story that appeals to his emotions.

the person's hot button has been pushed.

Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all-consuming ambition of Karl Marx.

And children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

when the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

He shaped and molded that office to the contours of his own heroic stature.

Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.

The assumption spreads that government best knows what is good for its people, when ultimately it does not.