Quotes About Influence

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

reading the Guardian makes you morose compared with the Telegraph. Maybe

No, it's the same people who are always in power, Vera. Sometimes they call themselves communists, sometimes capitalists, sometimes devoutly religious—whatever they need to be to hang on to power. The former communists in Russia are the same people who own all the industries now. They're the real rip-off merchants. But the professional middle classes, people like Valentina's husband, have been hardest hit.

Cuando una persona relaja su rostro y sonríe, se empieza a sentir mejor y hace que los que están a su alrededor también se sientan más tranquilos y confiados.

El contexto tiene una enorme importancia en la manera en la que evaluamos las cosas y, por consiguiente, en el modo en el que nos sentimos.

Un mal hábito entra como un huésped, se une a la familia y, finalmente, se hace con el control.» El Talmud

El lenguaje no solo describe la realidad, sino que además es capaz de crearla. Nuestra forma de hablarnos a nosotros mismos afecta tremendamente a nuestra manera de relacionarnos con el mundo.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Los odios vivifican y estimulan solo si es uno quien los gobierna; destruyen y desajustan cuando son ellos los que dominan.

En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de acuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su moral, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

Además, y a esta altura ¿quién no tiene culpa? ¿Quién puede vivir, en este país, en este mundo, en este tipo, de a cuerdo a sus principios, a sus normas, a su mora, cuando en realidad son otros quienes dictan los principios, la moral y las normas?

I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

This book exposes the ways in which food companies use political processes—entirely conventional and nearly always legal—to obtain government and professional support for the sale of their products. Its twofold purpose is to illuminate the extent to which the food industry determines what people eat and to generate much wider discussion of the food industry's marketing methods and use of the political system.