Quotes About Influence

what I'm remembering now is her smile, the way she turned it on people and seemed to make them stutter. I was nineteen and had zero idea what this meant—this power, this deep confidence

One drop of water can cause ripples for miles!

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

The tool enables man to conquer. But, man, dost thou not know there is no more victory which is thy victory? The victory of our days belongs to the tool.

The computer is an enigma. Not in its making or its usage, but because man appears incapable of foreseeing anything about the computer's influence on society and humanity. We have most likely never dealt with such an ambiguous apparatus, an instrument that seems to contain the best and the worst, and, above all, a device whose true potentials we are unable to scrutinize.

Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern.

That it is to be a dictatorship of test tubes rather than of hobnailed boots will not make it any less a dictatorship.

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

All scoundrels are based on this, to want to be...someone's big Other.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

I do not know if Saul Alinsky knows God. But I assure you that God knows Saul Alinsky.

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Try to be happy, if only for the purpose of setting an example

The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.

Lots of people have understood management as a way of throwing their weight around.

If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.

You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.

Mi nombre artístico será Joaquín Sabina –dijo el cantante–. Es el apellido de mi madre.

Quién te modeló sobre mi corazón, quién te tatuó sobre mis ojos?

Make it mandatory that all political bigwigs, corporate captains, media owners and medical chiefs will be vaccinated for Covid in the first phase, then very soon news anchors will start saying that that corona virus effect is over worldwide and now there is no need of any vaccination, mask wearing, any further lockdown, sanitiser using and social distancing.

I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - that, Charlie, is my biggest fear for this country.