Quotes about Influence
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
— Frank Herbert
Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.
— Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
— Frank Herbert
Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.
— Frank Herbert
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.
— Frank Herbert
But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.
— Frank Peretti
Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!
— Frank Peretti
I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.
— Ricky Gervais
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
— William James
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
— John Wesley
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
— Michael Jordan
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
— Oscar Wilde