Quotes About Influence

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

The medium is the message.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Don't blame the horse when you've got the reins.

Another problem with people who fail to examine themselves is that they often prove all too easily influenced.

Kindness should be immortalized every bit as much as power.

Normalize cruelty and cheating and mix it with power. Legitimate power works the best. Stir in as much chaos as possible and before you know it, old norms are gone, and everyone is off kilter.

What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference." - Susanna Quiner

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader.

in truth, the engaged culture lives and dies in the moment-to-moment decisions and behaviors of supervisors and managers. So it only stands to reason that engagement can be born anywhere inside the company.

Nixon bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.