Influence Quotes

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's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims....

~ Oscar Wilde

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

~ Stephen King

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 people. One of his numbers was to stare at the person he was talking to. He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes.

~ Walter Isaacson

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the Christian routine and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way?

~ Hannah Farver

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.

~ Scott Adams

The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe's)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be as dangerous as a Chinese Empress.

~ Colin Clark

You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every day we work towards creating our own persona, we may or may not realize it, but our actions & thoughts (positive or negative) adds to our reputation, people around us judge us on the basis of how much difference we make to their lives – they may or may not be connected directly to us, but still our actions or thoughts may influence their work, lives or thought process.

~ Shahenshahhk

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

~ Anne-Marie Slaughter

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.

~ Sam Richards

Dexter Morgan is more like disguise and influence... and everything = fake.

~ Deyth Banger

Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent

~ Paul Larsen

Now I'm not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu won't give you nourishment. We've got to engage with what's offered if it's going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

When I first went to prison, I made the best out of it. From the streets, I was hearing reports of Rebellions going to prison and getting do in [beat up]. Our fellas had no say, couldn’t even open up their mouths. When I went up there for the first time, I turned that prison into a place that everyone could say that the Rebellions were running it after that. I wouldn’t say I did it alone, but I help set the groundwork to give the Rebellions a say in prison. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

~ Drexel Deal

Never underestimate the influence you have on others.

~ Laurie Buchanan

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

~ Chris Hodges

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

~ Bob Burg

Life is all about impact, become an influential millionaire by touching million lives.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

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 figures to whom they are exposed.

~ Joseph Kenyon

A house takes on the character of its inhabitants, a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the house.

~ Clifford Cohen

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins.

~ Kirtida Gautam

The most important influence is all our lives are love. If we're never taught to love, then showing and accepting love becomes difficult.

~ Ron Baratono

William Boss Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

~ H.w. Brands

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

~ Stephen L. Carter

I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.

~ Johnny Rich

The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.

~ John Ferling

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

~ Anthony Liccione

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

~ Joseph J. Ellis

Not even generals can stop the rain.

~ Jeff Shaara

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

~ Robert A. Caro

A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

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.

~ Robert A. Caro

You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original; even great artists build upon what has occurred before, and add their personality and talent to create their own original expression.

~ Stephen Tow

the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter’s career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.

~ David Halberstam

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 fear that in the future, favors may be denied.

~ Robert A. Caro

Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson