Quotes About Influence

no one here ever took the work of Karl Marx or Friedrich Nietzsche or Sigmund Freud seriously. So there had been no Lenin, no Soviet Union, no communism or fascism; and two hundred million people who, elsewhere, had been killed by those regimes, had not been killed here.

These are very powerful people.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

rotten as the minds of those who believe they can learn all that exists to be known and can control anything they wish to control, who believe that it is their right, above the rights of all other men and women, to shape the destinies of their neighbors, cities, nations, and the Earth entire, according to their whims.

Parker possesses the resources to acquire whatever he wants

highly successful history of bribing public officials

he is a wizard at persuading police not to arrest him

You represent them?

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.

His wealth and connections open a door

Carson didn't believe either man was what he presented himself to be. Frawley looked like a fixer, a slick operator who had friends in all the highest places and knew how to take care of any screwup they committed.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

He is enchanted by the power of the law and by the infinite ways that the system can be manipulated to achieve any desired end.

Ganesh held up one hand. "There's more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

mellowing influences of elocution teachers

We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.

ASPIRE TO INSPIRE BEFORE YOU EXPIRE. —MRS. MIRACLE

the Girl Scout Cookie drives I'd organized, and how I'd been class mother for both Paul and Allie in their grade-school years. The last year Paul was in junior high, I'd been president of the PTA. My kids' teeth were straight, and they both were grounded and obtained above-average grades.

It's said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

Women who can't be close to their husbands have a propensity to develop a self-absorbing, spiritual intimacy with spiritual leaders—be they men or women.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.