Influence Quotes - Page 9

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

I think my influence on Donald Trump is way, way lower than what mainstream media has said.

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.