Quotes About Influence

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

There is only one truth. Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.

Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.

Whoever controls your eyeballs runs the world.

Devices make us pliant. We want to please them.

Power works best when there's no memory attached.

He is saying terror is what we use to give our people their place in the world. What used to be achieved through work, we gain through terror. Terror makes the new future possible. All men one man. Men live in history as never before. He is saying we make and change history minute by minute. History is not the book or the human memory. We do history in the morning and change it after lunch.

I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant

How is Hitler? Fine, solid, dependable.

Once you're a made man, you don't need the constant living influence of sources outside yourself.

Making one new friend can make a difference.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.

Ono što vjerujete o sebi projicirate na druge ljude i to je ono što drugi vjeruju o vama. Dakako, i oni se prema vama ponašaju u skladu s tim, što samo daje snagu vašem uvjerenju da niste vrijedni. A što je istina? Istina je da jeste vrijedni: svatko je vrijedan.

When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or form other people like siblings, teachers, and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward.

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

Never underestimate the power of social pressures on behavior, causing otherwise sensible people to do things they know are wrong and possibly dangerous.

Because we are all designers in the sense that all of us deliberately design our lives, our rooms, and the way we do things.

It is true that I am part of the laughing-aristocrat structure, Charles said. I don't mean I am one of them. I mean I am their creature. They hold me in thrall. Laughing aristocrats who invented the cost-plus contract . . . Laughing aristocrats who invented the real estate broker . . . Laughing aristocrats who invented Formica . . . Laughing aristocrats wiping their surfaces clean with a damp cloth . . . Charles poured himself another brilliant green Heineken. -To the struggle!

The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.

Leverage: don't make deals without it. Enhance

We are no longer a leader. Putin has become the leader, and it's an embarassment to our country.

The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful

I'm the only boss in the world who boosts a person's future status by firing them.