A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
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If enough people in a group say that red is green, you can be convinced that red is green even though all of your senses are saying that no, green is green.
Power is a matter of influence.
— Laeta Kalogridis, Laurens Bancroft, James Purefoy, imdb.com
You’re turning me into a criminal when all I want to be is a petty thug.
— Jonathan Collier, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com
Daria: You tried to buy my influence with a date? Quinn: Well, that's how we do it in America, comrade.
— Glenn Eichler, Sam Johnson, Quinn Morgendorffer (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
Few people are powerful enough, persuasive, persistent, consistent, and charismatic enough to change the world all at once, but everyone has the ability to affect the three feet around them by behaving more ethically, honestly, and compassionately toward those they meet. Just picture it: If more peo…
To act is to modify the shape of the world.
Critique isn't just about shaping the culture. Critique is about power. May we strive toward a world of diverse criticism, culture, and reading for all.
Some of us grew up in families and environments that were dysfunctional and emotionally destructive. You may not only look like your grandmother or mother, you probably think like her. How the people around you think has a definite impact on you.
It’s not enough to do good things. You have to let people know what you’re doing.
The words we use in our affirmations create energy that will influence the tide of our life.
What’s better than a million followers? The empty field that frees you of the urge to care.
The first step in changing anything is getting people to care.
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this—never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be—usually is, in fact—a false alarm that leads to nothing, but may on…
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Leadership is an influence process where you empower people to be part of the solution. As a leader, do you want to serve or be served?
When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet, to be rid of the influence of civilization. I want only to do simple, very simple art, and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in mind but to render, the way a…
The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings…
You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everyt…