Quotes About Influence

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

Cortés proved the shrewder of the two. As he did with the Aztecs, he did with his Castilian rival: he defeated Narváez's larger force with a smaller one.

the qualities that led the top Nazis to commit and tolerate acts of horror existed in many people, living in many places.

Naturally, I am the leader, so it is my problem to see that each of us contributes his share'.

You teach what you know... but impart who you are.

when we passed the Hells Angels clubhouse they were giving cans of beer out to little kids. "Repeat after me," ordered a drunken Hells Angel dressed as a Viking warrior. "When I grow up I'm going to be a badass.

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

Her majesty is in fact Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

To stop the war, we need to begin with ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi understood this when he said: I have only three enemies. My favorite enemy, the one most easily influenced for the better, is the British Empire. My second enemy the Indian people, is far more difficult. But my most formidable opponent is a man named Mohandas K. Gandhi. With him I seem to have very little influence.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.

significant effect on the behavioral and intellectual development of their children." —Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing

A person's first thought is rarely their own. More often than not, it belongs to a parent, a teacher, a coach, a professor, an old boss, or is something they have recently read in the newspaper or have seen on TV.

The power of television has nothing to do with its quality.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.

In one of his most important lessons, he told his sons that conquering an army is not the same as conquering a nation. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.