Quotes About Influence

As a leader, remember that one of the most significant strategies for building the qualities of solid relationships into the relational fabric of the team is for you, the team leader, to model them. Let team members see them in practice.

Leadership plays a significant role in creating culture.

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

All those square-jawed heroes of the old science fiction stories had it wrong. You can't save the world as we know it. I did what I could, and I did some good in the world. But you can't save the world without changing it.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Anything's possible in politics.

very few people are able to organize and direct followers, which is a far more subtle and multifaceted skill. Leadership is really a form of temporary authority that others grant you, and they only follow you if they find you consistently credible. It's all about perception—and if teammates find you the least bit inconsistent, moody, unpredictable, indecisive, or emotionally unreliable, then they balk and the whole team is destabilized.

Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions. She was lecturing him, so she stopped. "Sorry. Hang around with Bran too long, and see if you don't start passing around the Marrok's advice as if he were Confucius.

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

He can stop me in my tracks, but he can't make me do someting I don't want to

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.

Vampires did the one-name thing before Madonna and Prince.

I'd have thought that persuading people to do what they wanted to do would have been easier.

It has always been an ambition of mine to serve as an object lesson for others.

Want to explain to the kid that I'm more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?

want to. Adam wasn't angry. He wouldn't hurt me. I let him pull the power of his pack over me like a warm

some of the original authors like Hartman von Aue or Wolfram von Eschenbach.