Quotes About Influence

Awareness is the key that allows you to stop automatically doing things that drive men away and begin naturally doing things that support happy and satisfying relationships. Master this stuff and you'll notice that men, women, children, small animals, large animals, dust bunnies, and anything else that's not glued down will find it virtually impossible to resist you.

Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It's not your parents. It's not the economy. It's not your husband or your wife or your family. It's not your boss. It's not the schools you went to. It's not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

Our minds are what give us the power to manufacture reality, both for ourselves and others. That's because . . .

Beliefs are the hidden scripts that run our lives.

The fact that your beliefs shape your reality is undeniable. They affect you physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, intellectually, and culturally.

Many of our most deeply held convictions are hand-me-downs. They're old, unexamined, and unquestioned ideas that we innocently accepted from others.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

to glide gently into facile hands that would deform him.

Unfortunately, possession brings the conviction that one is right. Just as the Russians are convinced that the Western world is the destructive element, in the same way if the animus catches us, we can be sure that things are like that. The most important thing is to know this. Like most of my brothers and sisters, when I let myself be possessed by the animus, I do not realize; I am convinced that is my opinion and not my animus.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Không ai có th? thuy?t ph?c ng??i khác thay ??i. M?i cánh c?a c?a s? thay ??i v?n ch? có th? m? ???c t? bên trong b?n thân m?i ng??i. Dù b?ng lý l? hay s? lôi kéo tình c?m, b?n c?ng không th? m? cánh c?a ?ó c?a ng??i khác.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?

There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.