Quotes About Influence

When you're sixteen, sometimes you need the adults in the room to step in.

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it." — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

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

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

could land or take off from the planet. They hoped that the young Queen of Naboo would agree quickly to their demands. Then they could use Naboo as an example to persuade or force other planets to do the same. But

There are always people in any group who will go along with authority only so long as authority agrees with their opinions," Papa said.

If we are to recognize and free ourselves from the influence of the Power Over model, we must hear ourselves — what words we speak and in what manner we speak them. Likewise, we must hear the words spoken to us and the manner in which they are spoken. This awareness can bring us to the realization of how we do or do not dignify, respect, protect, and esteem ourselves and ultimately all life.

In the book Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that "a mood can spread through a group with great rapidity." How we show up is contagious; the mood "infects" others and spreads throughout the group. If the energy is negative, negativity will spread. If the energy is positive, creativity and optimism will spread.

While we may believe the circumstances of our lives have led us to think in a certain way, it is more accurate to say that the way we think is affecting the circumstances of our lives.

Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.

No you haven't, or you would never have been persuaded by anything your father and I and Grams Brennan ever said.

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

Me agrada pensar que estoy, aunque sólo sea un poco, al mando de mi destino.

What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.

I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

N]o nations with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.

For the addict, however, there is no choice. No choice. The addiction is in charge.

If we reach the cities, we will reach the nation. If we fail in the cities, they will become a cesspool that infects the entire nation.

I never heard voices. It possibly could have been the devil. I don't know, but I do know that at the time I formulated my decisions to kill, thoughts of the devil never entered into it. I knew something was compelling me to act, but I figured that it was my own selfish, sick need to gratify myself in this way. I just don't know.

Being assertive is understanding that you can't control what others may do, but you can control your own behavior.

Asking people for their advice or opinion is one of the best ways you can build instant rapport and become likeable in the eyes of many people.