Quotes About Influence

The immediate future is not in the hands of our first Negro President. It is in our hands, for better or for worse.

How could she be a helpmate to a public figure already so successful, the foremost member of the President's Cabinet? How could she be of any use to a public figure who already possessed everything?

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

No steel can pierce the human heart so chillingly as a period at the right moment.

Gorky is a forerunner—the most powerful in our time.

If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.

Be the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.

Lead how you like to be led.

True fame is not determined by the amount of people who heard of you, rather by the amount of people who support you.

Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good, or a force for destruction.

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem