Quotes About Influence

Principio según el cual una persona que me había enseñado a atarme los cordones de los zapatos no podía decir cualquier cosa

La gente percibe que soy el abono ideal para sus plantaciones secretas.

Je pense que les plus coupables sont les spectateurs, répondit-elle.

El hombre se construye a partir de lo que ha conocido en el transcurso de los primeros meses de vida: si no ha experimentado hambre, será uno de los raros elegidos, o de esos raros malditos que no edificarán su existencia en torno a la carencia.".

L'examen de l'édifiant langage d'autrui m'amena à cette conclusion: parler était un acte aussi créateur que destructeur. Il valait mieux faire très attention avec cette invention.

Non dire troppo male di te stesso, finiranno per crederci. [Citando Andrè Maurois]

I'm sorry if my presence upsets you." One corner of his mouth turned down in a wintry smile. "You have no idea what your presence does to me.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.

Every dollar added to the price of oil weakens America and strengthens her enemies.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.

When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the next generation; you steal away giving them anything to look up to.

Weakness is provocative.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.