173 quotes found
“You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.”
“You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?”
“My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.”
“Women work a good many miracles and I have a persuasion that they may preform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys the longer the bett...”
“Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent,”
“You can't make a difference, if you don't know what it is.”
“Never underestimate the influence you have on others.”
“Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.”
“Writers are influenced by their upbringing and experiences. But they are also influenced by the writings of others, the major historical events of their times and the great public and literary figu...”
“The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.”
“Welcome to the Age of Influence, where anyone can build an audience and effect change, advocate brands, build relationships and make a difference.”
“Let your gift of positive influence to be roused and spread like a wildfire from the east to the west and from the south to the north. All nations are waiting for it.”
“You were born to influence, you were called to influence, your existence is a great influence to all nations.”
“Your gift of positive influence will open the eyes of many people. They'll be able to recognise their personal values which will lead them to live authentic lives and achieve the impossible.”
“Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.”
“its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.”
“While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men a great reader of men.”
“Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the...”
“People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)”
“We Are Interested In Others When They Are Interested In Us”