Quotes About Influence

People wanted to follow these leaders, who cared about them. All three understood what was in the best interest of their audiences. That is how they got to be so loved.

your audience needs, and do your best day after day to meet those needs. But that's not persuasion, which works faster. To persuade someone that you're a caring person, you need to do two things. First, show you understand. Second, offer to make some little sacrifice.

The basic difference between an argument and a fight: an argument, done skillfully, gets people to want to do what you want. You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

En una lucha, los contendientes intentan vencer. En una discusión, intentan vencer a una audiencia, que puede incluir a los testigos directos, los telespectadores, un electorado o los interlocutores.

La diferencia esencial entre una argumentación y una lucha: una argumentación efectuada con destreza consigue que la gente haga lo que tú quieras. Luchas para ganar; discutes para alcanzar un acuerdo.

A bullying occasion should not be about the bully. That's just what the bully wants. It's about the audience. And a bully can give you the chance to enhance your ethos to that audience.

People's lives and deaths are written in polite notes that must be passed among the powerful like dance cards.

Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.

I'd urge you to try German Riesling because it's delicious, but I fear you'll be more impressed if I tell you it's cutting-edge. That, after all, is what we want to know-- what's now and happening. (Do you really think clunky square-toed shoes make your feet look better than those with slimming, tapered toes? You just wear them because that's what fashion dictates, you slut.)

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.

Writers are always pirates, marauding, taking whatever pleases them from others, shaping these stolen goods to our purposes.

Does the world not recognize that we are destined to be a great power?

My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.