Influence Quotes

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

The roots of my fashion are very classic. People judge me avant-garde, people judge me rock and roll, and I am smiling. I am the most classically influenced of the Italian designers.

I just read this great science fiction story. It’s about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves!… Hey! What time is it? My TV show is on! (“Calvin and Hobbes”)

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Influence may be the highest level of human skills.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

But the strange feature of these human submissive actions, as we encounter them today, is that they are performed towards a dominant figure, or figures, who are never present in person. Instead they are represented by images and artifacts and operate entirely through agents called holy-men or priests. These middle-men enjoy a position of social […]

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.