1,531 Quotes About Influence
- Author A.D. Aliwat
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Money people do not frighten me.
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- Author Susan Sontag
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The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.
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- Author Constance Friday
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Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption
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- Author Deborah Hopkinson
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You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.
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- Author Amanda Joy
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Yes, and political influence can shift like the changing tide, Your Highness. It is important to remember that power can't be swayed. Power simply is.
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- Author W.S. Merwin
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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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- Author Maurice Druon
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Men who love power are not only dominated, as is generally supposed, by an appetite for wealth and honours. Above all they are influenced by an objective taste for the creation of events, for controlling their occurrence, for acting upon the world with effectiveness and for being always in the right. Wealth and honours are no more than the signs and tools of their influence.
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- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
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There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.
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- Author Roy T. Bennett
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One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires.
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