Quotes About Influence

Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it's not too pretty. Back

Boys who see their fathers beat their mothers will likely grow up to be men who beat their wives.

I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: "To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

He (God) remembers that we are but shadows and dust, therefore what we do in this life echoes in eternity.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.

People leave managers, not companies

MICHAEL: Maybe just this: A manager has got to remember that he is on stage every day. His people are watching him. Everything he does, everything he says, and the way he says it, sends off clues to his employees. These clues affect performance. So never forget you are on that stage.

Even more than the rest, these five questions are most directly influenced by the employee's immediate manager. What does this tell us? It tells us that people leave managers, not companies.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

No Christian leader – no leader of any kind – is immune from the dangers of misuse of power and position.

It is no good pretending that as Christian leaders we have little or no power. We do. Power and power differentials are givens in leadership. Being realistic about this is essential if we are to grasp how we affect others. We need to be as insightful as possible if we want to ensure that we use our power and authority in right and godly ways.

Authority, used correctly, is a deeply positive, nurturing thing.

It is quite possible for leaders to become self-promoting without realizing it. Over time, defending their reputation becomes important to retaining and growing control. They become harder to disagree with because of the combination of the control they exert within the formal structure and the relational support they can gather privately outside of it.

If you spend time around people who are weak or always feel sorry for themselves, it's bound to rub off on you.

You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.

I have found that the best way to get through tough times is to surround myself with positive people. If you spend time around people who are weak of always feel sorry for themselves, it's bound to rub off on you. Always look forward, never back.

It's like tossing a dart," he'd said. "There's nothing amazing about it. You throw and it sticks somewhere. But if you try and backtrack every factor that led there, the force of the throw and the angle and the air resistance, all of it had to be perfect, just exactly right, for it to end up where it did.

But you can take the energy from others," Sonny said. "Kill here, the sky gets brighter, food tastes better. Do it enough and maybe you live forever.

Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to