Quotes About Influence

I think the thing that helps you get to the next level is being able to affect the game in different ways. And that's me getting my teammates shots instead of me just coming off pin-downs.

I feel like the impact that you leave on others and your teammates and everybody around you is what's most important.

I will be captain for my teammates and be captain of Manchester United is an important achievement for me but I think everyone is the captain, everyone needs to help and be a leader in their own way, leadership is different in every player.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.

When I grew up it was Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls, the Lakers, the Boston Celtics, those were the teams you loved or hated and me being from San Diego, you loved the Lakers.

You can't help the way you feel.

Malicious or not, strong leaders always attract followers.

Love doesn't make angels fall. If anything, love can have quite the opposite effect.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

tree frogs may be small be can make a big difference.

Power," as John Adams had written, "always thinks it has a great soul.

A French writer once observed that, "in the new colonies, the Spanish start by building a church, the English a tavern, and the French a fort.

Always do whatever you can to keep your superior from making a mistake.

Any great leader in any society probably gives better than he gets

Don't worry about what people think, because once it's all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don't love you will, too.

Whenever you speak to be understood, your communications will inevitably have an influence on your problem people. If they become defensive, be willing to temporarily drop what you are saying and totally focus on their reaction to it. Do your best to fully understand by backtracking, clarifying, summarizing, and confirming.

Other studies have similarly revealed that to some degree, people rise or fall to the level of others' expectations.

These repetitions of name or gender create an irresistible force that so distracts the Tanks, Know-It-Alls, Grenades, or Whiners that they must stop talking to find out what it is you want! Once you have their attention, you can move forward by stating your intent, by clarifying something they were saying, or by using any of the other choices suggested in this chapter.

Jesus did not spend the same amount of time with everyone. He chose twelve and spent a majority of his time with them. There were toxic people that he spent hardly any time with. For example, the Pharisees were against him from the outset of his ministry. He engaged them only when he needed to. Most of his time he poured himself into a small circle of disciples.

We are all, to some extent, actors. We act in order to get what we want and need from the world.

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

Now even reformers needed political machines.