Quotes About Influence

One would have thought that the school room is the proper place for students to inquire into the ways in which media of all kinds—including television—shape people's attitudes and perceptions.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

As the Exxon seller said afterward, "Unless you've an un-usually good price, you've got to have a friend in the account if you want to influence a purchasing agent. And the best friend is the person who's having the most problems with your competitor.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

Ella guided me: sometimes directly, sometimes with story and metaphor, but mostly how she lived.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

You might notice I refer to my son Ben as Ben Young all the time. Larry (Johnson) always called his son Ben Johnson. I liked the pride with which he would say "Ben Johnson." It is a lingering memory of his great spirit.

Rock 'n' roll is everybody's fucking music…I would certainly hope that it's the devil's music, but it's not just the devil's music. I think that's where God and the devil shake hands – right there.

People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.

The household revolved around Matthias's power, his anger, and obedience to him in all things.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

A leader is like a shepherd...staying behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.