Quotes About Influence

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

the moment you follow someone else, you cease to be your own leader.

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

When we think we are using language, language is using us.

Femeia este o divinitate, o stea care controleaz? toate ideile din mintea b?rbatului

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.

What we say is never about what we say; what we say is about who we are talking to. What we say is a tool to change our hearers.

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

For every difficult destination, there are thousands who stand aside and point the way for each one with courage and capacity to go before and show the way. The former are managers; the latter are leaders.

Dalam tindakan terkecilnya sekalipun, manusia selalu dibayangi motivasi sosial, manusia butuh justifikasi dari lingkungannya.

Saya percaya ada proses surat-menyurat. Takdir yang interaktif. Bukan satu arah. Apapun yang Anda lakukan dan *pikirkan* akan berakibat penuh pada dunia. Terlepas dari Anda menyadarinya atau tidak.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

Everyone creates the world they perceive, and we all perceive according to impressions fixed in the past.

Las expectativas son poderosos activadores del cerebro.