Great leadership is not about giving orders, it’s about taking others

Polish your mind to reflect the shimmering beauty of your words and actions.

could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

You look at the way that Joe has that team playing and you know what his influence is. They fight and work and make you earn everything that you get.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped...

Gary has been a positive influence. He always simulates the other team’s point guard in practice, and in many cases he’s a better player.

Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.

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,...

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

The purpose of influence is to “speak up for those who have no influence.” (Pr.31:8) It’s not about you.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world’s second-largest economy, without the political will and security guarantee of this emerging power, international institutions and norms will be irrelevant and the legitimacy and credibility of their resolutions and arrangements will fall short of promise.

To have a positive influence on someone’s life is a blessing.

What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly

Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.

Coach Pearl has had a tremendous influence on me. What they’ll do is play nine guys, maybe 10. They will press full court. They’ll pick up a variety of defenses, mostly full-court man. They’ll make you play faster than what you want to play. We’ll play that way every game and we’ll play it every...

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I’ve tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

Never make fun of people who are different…unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

I’m a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I’ve listened to Beyonce all my life, and she’s a big influence on me.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough...

What happens in January isn’t going to have much influence on what happens in November.

If you’re frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you’ll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

They influence our average wages.

The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when it came to the principle of the French revolution, but Burke did and said magnificent things when it came to Ireland, India and America. One of them was in some ways a revolutionary...

When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

Don’t give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can’t make you a better person.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

A real man can use power, rather than let power use him

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

You’re in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody’s as good as anybody else as long as he’s got the dough to prove it.

The films should be influenced by the individual commandments to the same degree that the commandments influence our daily lives

I don’t see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Iranian levers of influence include a broad network of informants, military and logistical support of armed groups, and social welfare campaigns.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

I’m concerned about the insidious influence of the media’s bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

My views may have had some influence … But their views have influenced me as well,

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

What you’re seeing here is what happens when a pharmaceutical industry, through lobbying and campaign contributions and influence buying, gets a program that it wants. What the industry lobbied against was any type of uniform system, and they very much got free rein over what they were going to offer and how they were going...

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds’ public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own discomfort.’Peter Freyd is my brother, Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law,’ he explained. Peter and Pamela had grown...

human mind is influencing constantly.man can not fully control it.as he think he did,second after he will be under it’s control.that’s all being human.