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“The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked uprigh...”
“It is safe to assume that any individual or group you wish to influence has access to more wisdom than they currently use. It is also safe to assume that they also have considerably more facts than...”
“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of peop...”
“I dont think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. Its not even preaching to the converted; its titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire...”
“The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence”
“Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others”
“I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.”
“He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.”
“Chits knew no ideology.”
“The cost of independence has dropped.”
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.”
“A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.”
“I am your opus.”
“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one...”
“The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme." Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other p...”
“Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. " Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared w...”
