Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery… If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says… When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand. Then tell him what it is you want and point out the areas where you are in agreement and those […]
Influence Quotes
No single man, probably, has exercised a greater influence on the ideas, literature and art of the twentieth century than Freud.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you super add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The true teacher defends his pupil against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
For many have found advantage, in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
