Quotes About Influence

There are three types of beings—those who create culture, those who buy culture, and those who don't give a shit about culture. Move between the first two.

But all of you are likely spending more time than you realize selling in a broader sense—pitching colleagues, persuading funders, cajoling kids. Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

power leads individuals to anchor too heavily on their own vantage point, insufficiently adjusting to others' perspective.

Likewise, several studies show that paying people to exercise, stop smoking, or take their medicines produces terrific results at first—but the healthy behavior disappears once the incentives are removed.

Power can move you off the proper position on the dial and scramble the signals you receive, distorting clear messages and obscuring more subtle ones.

These tools we love so much have burrowed under our skin like parasites...Making us smarter and stronger and always, always more dependent.

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them. —MICHAEL CRICHTON

It'll turn me into a weapon,' I say, my voice suddenly loud. 'All you got to do is curl your hands into fists and you turn into a weapon,' says Jim. 'Your body is just another tool. This technology changes nothing; it only amplifies. You decide how to use your tools. Whether to do good or evil.

When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about "it" (prayer) but are infectious about "Him

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some hire PR officers.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.

Much of what we have been doing to improve the world's opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which we have sent over the world are primary aids to the belief in the irrelevance, the arrogance, the rigidity, and the conceit of America. Not because they are poorly made. On the contrary, because they are well made and vividly projected. Not because they are favorable images or unfavorable images, but because they are images.

We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view... Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us. In imitating him, in trying to dress like him, talk like him, look like him, think like him, we are simply imitating ourselves.

One of them was Jake Eberts, a film producer whose works include Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy, A River Runs through It, The Killing Fields, and Chicken Run, and whose films received sixty-six Oscar nominations and seventeen Oscar wins (he passed away in 2012).

he turned Kennedy into an in-group member For an experimental replication of this, see Experiment 2 in Rothbart, M., & Hallmark, W. (1988). In-group-out-group differences in the perceived efficacy of coercion and conciliation in resolving social conflict. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55(2), 248–257.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

Everything they see, hear, feel, touch, or even smell impacts their brain and thus influences the way they view and interact with their world—including their family, neighbors, strangers, friends, classmates, and even themselves.

If the leaders of a culture are themselves devoid of mindsight, then the young, emerging minds of that culture will be living in a world in which the blind are leading the blind.

what you do and don't value, and what you do and don't give attention to, will impact who your child becomes.

To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.

What this means is reflecting on your relationships in the past in your own family life and asking yourself how those experiences influenced your development.