Quotes About Influence

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

We all become what we pretend to be.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

Good lord woman. If i had tits like yours I'd own half the world by now.

Es una palabra. Las palabras son pálidas sombras de nombres olvidados. Los nombres tienen poder, y las palabras también. Las palabras pueden hacer prender el fuego en la mente de los hombres. Las palabras pueden arrancarles lágrimas a los corazones más duros. Existen diez palabras que minarán la más poderosa voluntad de un hombre. Pero una palabra no es más que la representación de un fuego. Un nombre es el fuego en sí.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.

If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es la que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos a nosotros mismos a partir de esa historia.

But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

One of the things I hear a lot from people is how they found my book, or how they've shared it with other people. This always warms my bitter old heart, not just because I like selling more books, (though I do) but because reccomending a book to a friend is one of the most sincere forms of flattery there is. If you read someone I wrote and like it enough to tell a friend, that means I've done something right. That means more to me than any sort of professional review….

Appearance is a type of power.

He taught me more than all the others set end to end. If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well.

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power

Los nombres dan forma al mundo, y un hombre que puede pronunciarlos va camino del poder.

Existe una forma específica de pensar llamada Alar —explicó Wilem—. Crees en algo con tanta fuerza que sucede

Hay dos cosas que debéis recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres. —Dejó de pasearse y nos miró—. La segunda es que hasta el nombre más sencillo es tan complejo que vuestra mente jamás podría tantear siquiera sus límites, y mucho menos entenderlo lo bastante bien para pronunciarlo.

La reputación es como una especie de armadura, o un arma que puedes blandir en caso de necesidad

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask you not to hold it against him. He meant well.

Eres inteligente, y encantador, y un mentiroso. Sé que puedes doblegar al mundo con tus palabras. Y por eso no te escucharé.

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos a nosotros mismos a partir de esa historia.