Quotes About Influence

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

A good idea always attracts other good ideas.

I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.

Because an idea lives on after the death of the person.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them, Ivan," she says. "Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

Close enough so I can see the smile, a smile I know full well, a smile that clubs, a smile that beats, a smile that dominates.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. She sighed, annoyed. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day, God help us all.

You did this to me," I say, still trembling. "You put it in my head and made me–" "I did no such thing," he says. "I merely showed you the path. You walked down it all by yourself.

Stories don't end with the writers, however many started the race.

Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself.

The attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

She's always saying that being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day." She catches my eye. "Which is something I believe, too.

I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen- And it did. I controlled him. Just like the Mayor. I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea. My hands are shaking. Bloody hell.

Du schreibst die Geschichte deines Lebens nicht mit Worten, sagte das Monster. Du schreibst sie mit Taten. Es ist nicht wichtig, was du denkst. Wichtig ist nur, was du tust.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as separate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it.