Quotes about Influence
STORYBRAND PRINCIPLE SEVEN: NEVER ASSUME PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR BRAND CAN CHANGE THEIR LIVES. TELL THEM.
— Donald Miller
Customers make buying decisions not based on what we say but on what they hear.
— Donald Miller
Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them. If a person senses that you do not like them, that you do not approve of their existence, then your religion and your political ideas will all seem wrong to them. If they sense that you like them, then they are open to what you have to say.
— Donald Miller
You'll be able to use your one-liner on your website, in emails, keynotes, and elevator pitches. Your one-liner will be the central component to your entire messaging campaign.
— Donald Miller
What if the story of our lives is less about what we build and more about who we build up?
— Donald Miller
the ideas and experiences we exchange with others grow into us like vines and reveal themselves in our mannerisms and language and outlook on life. If you want to make a sad person happy, start by planting them in a community of optimists.
— Donald Miller
When we don't ask clearly for the sale, the customer senses weakness.
— Donald Miller
The most powerful tool we can use to organize information so people don't have to burn very many calories is story.
— Donald Miller
Our Lord...made it very clear that it is not your identification that is essential. We are to be identified with Christ! We are in Christ by the baptism of the Holy Spirit the moment we trust Christ as our Saviour and are born again as a child of God.
— J. Vernon McGee
The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
— JC Ryle
What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.
— JC Ryle
the parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand and pulling down with the other.
— JC Ryle