Quotes About Influence

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

In this world, all power rests upon force.

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and that's the kind of authority that writes books.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that's frightening.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.