Quotes About Influence

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes so many things happen. If we say or write words in a certain way, we can make people see things that aren't there and feel things they have no reason to feel—all this with mere mouth sounds or paper marks.

The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it.

We are all culturally embedded creatures—we can never untangle ourselves from our here and now. We perceive God, think about God, and talk about God in ways that make sense to us by virtue of when and where we live.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

We're on Earth, now, remember. You can do anything you want here as long as you've got money.

Memories do not hurt, they only influence.

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here.

I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.

knowledge is a true power in any society

Hurting them financially weakens them, and reduces their power over the workers they exploit.

And it was quite difficult to insert, wasn't it, girls? You know, I actually had to hold them down to do it, there was so much girly squealing and wiggling. And look at them now, happy to do as they're told.

I've withdrawn her university permit so she doesn't continue spreading that kind of sedition among impressionable young minds.

Have you ever been rich, Detective?" "That's Hoshe, and no, I've never been rich." "They really don't live by the same rules as anyone else. Whatever they want to do, they just do it. I

You are responsible to your political paymasters, and their eternal quest for the status quo.

Dac? R?zboiul Starflyer îl înv??ase ceva era c? evenimentele îi conduc pe oameni, nu invers.

In terms of intellectual debt, more people deserve acknowledgment than we could possibly list.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.