Influence Quotes

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show.

~ Noam Chomsky

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

~ John Maynard Keynes

It seems then that instead of consumers' willingness to pay influencing market prices, the causality is somewhat reversed and it is market prices themselves that influence consumers' willingness to pay.

~ Dan Ariely

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities, the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.

~ Norman Lockyer

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even preaching to the converted; it’s titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us.’ I’m fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

~ Tom Lehrer

Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it’s the game of interpretation.

~ Harrish Sairaman

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

~ Beatrix Potter

Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

~ Robert J. Allison

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 people around me but I have never felt trapped in the nets of influence.

~ Balroop Singh

To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.

~ Enock Maregesi

Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!

~ T.f. Hodge

Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.

~ Farshad Asl

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others

~ Saji Ijiyemi

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.

~ Mark Twain

Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques. Philip Howard

~ George F. Will

Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany's)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!So Santa-san is delivering gifts to children while driving under the influence . . . ?

~ Hidekaz Himaruya

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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.

~ Alexandra Robbins

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.

~ Richie Norton

The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.

~ Charles R. Drysdale

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

~ Sunday Adelaja

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

~ Anthony Liccione

Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

~ Andy Stanley

Chits knew no ideology.

~ Rick Perlstein

People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Create an environment to grow consistently and to influence everyone around you positively. Your future doesn’t have to equal your past. You are designed to achieve greatness, to be happy and to live the life you deserve. Start with setting a P.O.S.I.T.I.V.E. Goal.™

~ Farshad Asl

The cost of independence has dropped.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

~ Leo Buscaglia

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

~ Marcus Brigstocke

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

~ Criss Jami

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

~ Scott Westerfeld

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

~ Charlotte Brontë

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

~ Jackie Robinson

I am your opus.

~ Sylvia Plath

You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.

~ Cochise (Like Ironweed)