Quotes About Influence

France, Germany, Russia, China, and India are major and active players, whereas Great Britain, Japan, and Indonesia, while admittedly very important countries, do not so qualify. Ukraine, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey, and Iran play the role of critically important geopolitical pivots, though both Turkey and Iran are to some extent—within their more limited capabilities—also geostrategically active. More will be said about each in subsequent chapters.

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through ... such is the basic method of leadership.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

The best leaders of all are ones the people do not know exist. They turn to each other and say we did it ourselves.

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

It is widely recognized that the courageous spirit of a single man can inspire to victory an army of thousands. If one concerned with ordinary gain can create such an effect, how much more will be produced by one who for greater things cares!

When you have kids, you're responsible for their mistakes. Their mistakes, their heartaches, their happiness... you take everything on yourself!

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

a manager "is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!

Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference

Christians who live to be pleasing to God are so spiritually attractive that people want to know what makes them stand apart.

Things you say in a matter of seconds are never forgotten in a lifetime."—IKE REIGHARD