Quotes About Influence

Hillary Clinton was her protégée, even when she was the nation's First Lady and then a U.S. senator from New York. Some of the cracks in the glass ceiling were put there by Ann.

And it will matter little, in after days, Whether this twig, or that, kindled the blaze.

Schubert had been one of the first composers to groan, "Who can do anything after Beethoven?

relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

Asking that woman to take a sideline seat is like asking Johnny Depp to stop being hot.

Justice is a very powerful emotion. It sometimes overrides even death.

choice increases the likelihood of compliance. It's not the choice itself that's important, it's the feeling that the person has a choice that makes a difference in behavior.

Behavioral Change Stairway Model, five steps that include active listening, showing empathy, building rapport, and gaining influence—which leads, finally, to the fifth step: behavioral change.

What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

[A]utumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations...

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath ' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

it was part of being very young that you overestimated the lightweights with charisma.

From my hand,