Quotes About Influence

The global temperature for 2021 is unlikely to be a record year due to the influence of the current La Niña, but it will be far warmer than other past La Niña years such as 2011 and 2000 due to global warming,

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Geithner went to the well-connected investment bank Warburg Pincus. Bernanke advises the Citadel hedge fund and chaired an advisory board for the giant PIMCO bond fund, owned by Allianz of Germany, which also included as its members Jean-Claude Trichet and Gordon Brown as well as Anne-Marie Slaughter of the Obama foreign policy team.34 It was like a mini reunion of 2008 crisis fighters.

Management's never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management's true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management. - Lastogne

the time spent on social media was negatively correlated with the amount of money in one's bank account and positively correlated with the amount of body fat on one's person

Morao sam, naravno, da izigravam ?udljivog osobenjaka. Ali bogatašima to lepo pristaje.

the books of samuel were originally one book. In the Septuagint (LXX) it was divided into two, owing to its length, and the Christian tradition followed this division. In Hebrew Bibles used by the Jewish community, this division was not accepted until the 15th century, under the influence of the Vulgate. Following a pattern found in some other biblical books, which end with the death of a main character, the division in the book of Samuel was made at the point of Saul's death.

2. If attitude is so important, why bother about words? A parent's look of disgust or tone of contempt can hurt deeply. But if, in addition, a child is subjected to words like "stupid" . . . "careless" . . . "irresponsible" . . . "you'll never learn," he's doubly wounded. Somehow words have a way of lingering long and poisonously. The worst part is that children sometimes pull out

And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

Even with millions you can't control time.

The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first century will be a Chinese century. The pendulum of history will swing from the ying ashes brought by the Cultural Revolution to the yang pheonix arising from its wreckage. Aunt Baba, pg 226. Year 1979

The most stupid man is not the one who acts or speaks improperly, but he who consigns the steering wheel of his destiny to a religious man.

The surrender of oneself on the Sabbath is not simply a matter of no activity but of opening oneself to the influence of the higher worlds and thereby receiving the strength for all the days of the week that follow.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.