Quotes About Influence

Las clases las llevamos clavadas en el alma y les pertenecemos para siempre sin darnos cuenta. No es un asunto político; es algo más hondo.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Disarming and conquering your fear begins with recognizing its presence, accepting it, and taking action to manage it. And fear grips not just those who have lost their jobs, but all those who are part of their circle of influence—spouses, children, parents, and friends.

The irony is that if you're like most people, you allow everything and everyone, except you, to determine what you are feeling. Said differently, you allow external influences to dictate your emotions.

Principle #6: A Positive Sphere of Influence: Your Environment May Determine How Quickly You'll Land Your Next Job! Will Rogers may have said it best when he said that "the quality of life is often a result of the people in life you avoid.

Once you have identified and confirmed that four to six people agree to endorse you, I advise you to write the reference statements yourself! Athletes and celebrities do not write the advertisements for the products and services they endorse. And your "endorsers" should not write the advertisements for you, either! I suggest you write the testimonial and then send it to your references so they can review the statement and make whatever edits they may want to make.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Everything...affects everything

To me, the experience of having had manic depression can never be separated from my sense of who I am. It runs through me like wine through water: everything is coloured (or tainted) by it.

La retórica es el arte de la influencia, la amistad y la elocuencia, del ingenio y la lógica irrefutable. Y emplea la más poderosa de las fuerzas sociales: la argumentación.

los tres rasgos del liderazgo creíble señalados por Aristóteles: virtud, desinterés y sabiduría práctica.

Arrancar lágrimas al público es fácil comparado con el objetivo número dos: hacer que decidan lo que tú quieres.

El objetivo número tres, consistente en lograr que el público haga algo o deje de hacerlo

Este capítulo te ha ofrecido recursos básicos para determinar el resultado de una discusión: Establece tu objetivo personal. Establece tus objetivos para tu audiencia. ¿Quieres cambiar su estado de ánimo, su opinión o su disposición a realizar lo que tú desees?

La seducción es manipulación, la manipulación es la mitad de la argumentación y, por consiguiente, muchos de nosotros la rehuimos.

utiliza la idea de tu contrincante para conseguir lo que deseas. Practica el jiu-jitsu retórico empleando los movimientos de tu rival para hacerle perder el equilibrio.

People still love a well-delivered talk; the top professional speakers charge more per person than a Bruce Springsteen concert.

You'll mold the minds of men and women to your will, and make any group yield to the dominion of your voice. Even more important, you'll get them to want to yield, to commit to your plan, and to consider the result a consensus.

This technique works for humans as well. If you have a kid who is reluctant to get dressed, give her a choice of clothing. That makes her feel powerful. Wrong: Would you please get dressed? Right: Which do you want to wear, the red shirt or the blue one?

Is he paying attention? A distracted audience is much harder to persuade. When you argue with your cat, you must entertain him.

Aristotle himself said that to get someone to take an action you need to build desire.

Audience targeting. When you're under attack, search out your persuadable audience. Aim your response at that audience, even if you're speaking to the bully.

The argument which is made by a man's life is of more weight than that which is furnished by words. —ISOCRATES

while logic is excellent and noble, and a first-rate way to make a friend look like a drooling idiot, a perfectly logical argument fails to persuade most of the time.