Quotes About Influence

You cannot lead others, if you cannot lead yourself. Know yourself and develop self discipline first, the rest is easy

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

Our only hope is to control the vote.

But I would like to make an important point before this goes any further and that is if anyone feels like arresting me for corrupting an innocent kid then all I can say is that Edmond was not corruptible. Some people are just like that and if you don't believe me it just means you've never met one of them yourself. Which is your loss.

It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second.

In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of self-worth to middle-class boys of no particular merit. I will, however, grant them something. Without the first school, I would not have ended up at the second. Without the second, I would not have attended St Oswald's. Without St Oswald's, I would not have met Finn. Without Finn, there would be no story.

not like any smile i had ever experienced before. but such a smile! you could burn a hole in the world with that smile

Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

There are some people who have such a strong effect on you, even if you've spent very little time with them, that they become embossed inside you, and any hint of them, any casual mention, creates a sudden stir in you.

The past is so tenacious.

Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism.

When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn't often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.

Men give women the power that they themselves don't want.

But you can't say that what you learn in English class doesn't matter. That great writing doesn't make a difference. I'm

Boys can't seem to help but leave marks; they scatter them as carelessly as pebbles in a pond.

Faith had taken an interest in her. She had even said she admired her. And now Faith was giving her permission. But permission to do what? The answer wasn't at all obvious.

People wanted one another to do something. They wanted someone to say the thing that they could then take into themselves and transform into something else.

Faith was one of those people. Greer had started to see, who was seductive to almost everyone. Seduction was a power move to Faith, and maybe even a compulsion, but it seemed to happen effortlessly, and was in the service of a greater good.

The voice. It doesn't just matter what you say. It matters who does the saying. It matters whose voice it is.

It's like we kept trying to use the same rules," Greer said, "and these people kept saying to us, 'Don't you get it? I will not live by your rules.'" She took a breath. "They always get to set the terms. I mean, they just come in and set them. They don't ask, they just do it. It's still true.

Only when those fathers were not on the premises could they be elevated and deified.

Bone didn't know yet that the men who own the world don't get to do that by being magnanimous and overly interested in other people. They get to do it by taking care of themselves along the way. They stoke the fire of their own reputations, and sometimes other people come by, asking: What's that you're doing there? Oh, stoking the fire of my reputation. Can I help? Certainly. Go get some wood.

We each have only one voice, and the world is so loud. Sometimes I think that the quiet ones have figured out that the best way to get other people's attention is not to shout, but to whisper. Which makes everyone listen a little harder.