Quotes About Influence

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for belonging to Peoples Temple, and for believing in Jim Jones. As Jonestown historian Fielding McGehee observes, "What you thought Jim said depended on who you were.

If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what to do.

Charlie was booked as "MANSON, CHARLES M., AKA JESUS CHRIST, GOD.

he would be very much pleased to meet Mr. Ford." To Ford, his interaction with Edison in 1896 was inspirational and life-changing. To Edison, it had been a brief encounter with an ambitious fan, not at all unique and instantly forgotten.

1.?What do we want to be known FOR? 2.?What are we known FOR?

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Rob's confidence was communicated with a simple look that said, If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.

At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.

If you're positive and enthusiastic, people will want to spend time with you. — Jeff Keller And all of these great things happened because I tapped into Stu Kamen's network … and then the Think & Grow Rich newsletter's network … and then Jim Donovan's network.

Watch Your Words Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

We become part of what we are around.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. — Rudyard

We become part of what we are around. — Unknown

Your friends will stretch your vision … or choke your dreams. — Unknown

Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? — W. Clement Stone

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends,

never doubt that a single thoughtful, committed person can change the world.

The 95 percent on the failure curve tend to accept the heroes society plants in front of them: film stars (America's version of royalty), rock stars, sports stars.