Quotes About Influence

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

Through all the drama—whether damned or not—Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

All naturally evolved religions--cultural viruses--are bundles of memes.

Today's parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.

When Marshall died in 1835, he and the Court he led had rebuked two presidents, Congress, and a dozen states and laid down principles of law and politics that still apply.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.

Biology Under the Influence is a collection of our essays built around the general theme of the dual nature of science. On the one hand, science is the generic development of human knowledge over the millennia, but on the other it is the increasingly commodified specific product of a capitalist knowledge industry.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

Leaders are not born. Leaders are built.

leadership is not power over others. Rather, leadership is power with them.

The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)

Senator Jordan's only response had been made upon a single mimeographed sheet holding a single sentence. Distributed to all press agencies, it said: "How long will you let this man use you and trick you?" Senator

The first thing a human being is loyal to, Yen Lo observed, is his own conditioned nervous system.

Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.

As private parts to the gods are we! They play with us for their sport. (Lord Melchett, Blackadder.)

What is said may be grammatically accurate or erroneous in the extreme, but it will be colored by the person's view of reality, which is itself influenced by the rigidity of his or her own language structure.