Quotes About Influence

Political power has to be constantly recreated by persuading others to recognize one's power; to do so, one pretty much invariably has to convince them that one's power has some basis other than their recognition.

from China's point of view, this is the first stage of a very long process of reducing the United States to something like a traditional Chinese client state.

the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him. -John C. Maxwell, The Twenty-one Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.

Liberty grew because it served the interests of power. This apparent paradox was the core of Western identity.

work, Jacob was not claiming to make a detailed and correct prediction of climate changes over the next several hundred thousand years, only to determine whether our influence could be strong enough to interrupt the Milankovi? oscillations over the coming millennia. His first model results suggest that the answer is yes.

I saw for real that he wasn't worth anything without her, and that all his power in life came from her being with him. He turned into half a human in that one instant.

A single moment that lasts a lifetime, still poisoning anything I come close to, to this day. Every person I touch.

From the minute I saw you with the match in your hand I thought I could tell you anything on my mind. You'd be my model, but for words.

Techno music is the foundational influence upon the modern tunes that saturate the cultural airwaves with unabashed monotony giving today's tunes all of the lyrical sophistication of a kindergarten merry-go-round rhyme combined with the musical nuances of an electric can opener.

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

People will accept your idea more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

As Chuang Tzu says: Too much pleasure? Yang has too much influence. Too much suffering? Yin has too much influence.28

The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know.

It was typical of Washington's style of leadership to present a promising proposal as someone else's idea, rather than his own.

It is poppycock to think that it is necessary to resort to laws to make America greater by banning comic books... This is a matter for the home, the school, the church, and other family influences - not the legislatures.

he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there precisely because they did not have power, that those who did hold or had access to power tried to keep out of sight. Halberstam, David; John McCain (2002-03-26). The Best and the Brightest (Modern Library) (Kindle Locations 448-449). Modern Library. Kindle Edition.

the little things were not little things, because it was the accumulation of little things that made big things happen.

Advertising," he wrote, "now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

The early Washington years seemed to confirm the Bundy legend. He was at the center of things, darting in and out of the President's office ("Goddammit, Mac," someone heard Kennedy say, "I've been arguing with you about this all week long," and that was power—being able to argue with the President all week long).

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.