Quotes About Influence

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.

Anyone but Aes Sedai would have gaped at her. As it was, Romanda very nearly spluttered.

Some women," Dyelin murmured into her wine, "can make a fish bite by crooking a finger, Lady Birgitte. Other women have to drag their bait all over the pond.

All women are Aes Sedai.

They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.

It is better to be the hammer than the nail.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.

I want you to stop thinking you're going to make them do anything. They've decided what they are going to do, and you can't change it. But maybe—just maybe—you can help me keep them alive.

there was nothing a woman liked better than finding men who were relaxing, then giving them orders.

The key to leadership is in the rippling waves.

we are the hare, and it is the hounds who dictate the chase.

You tossed him aside for the White Tower. Why should you care if I pick him up?

She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife;

El hombre es el animal que se somete más fácilmente a un yugo, y el más difícil de mantener sujeto a él. Incluso cuando él lo escoge libremente.

Being in control wasn't so much about the power you had, but the power you implied that you had.

Rand was ta'veren, one of those rare individuals who, instead of being woven willy-nilly into the Pattern, instead forced the Pattern to shape itself around them.

To control saidar, you first had to surrender to it. Fight, and it would come wildly, or overwhelm you; surrender and guide it gently, and it did as you wished.

Let any man as wants start carrying a sword, and soon we'd be as bad as everyplace else. I heard what they're like, Mistress, and we don't want that here.

Lead by example. Require strength, but first show it.

Ucapan orang bodoh sama saja dengan debu Rand al'Thor

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

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