Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

In oratory the will must predominate.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.