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

We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river,...

The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

If you are sad don’t try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach.

My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances… strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of people around me but...

My dad’s Irish music was such a huge influence.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever be remembered.

You are like a city on the hill; you can’t be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and your influence will be seen from afar!

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on ‘Load’ and ‘ReLoad.’

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

History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Psychology of small things rules.

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town’s true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence’ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.

I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into...

It is a carefully orchestrated political strategy to show that the presidential camp is still alive and can influence the peace process. It’s saying ‘we’re still here and we can block the process’.

The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends…!

The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to...

Working as a cartel, these institutions could influence economies for good or for naught, potentially in ways that may not be guided by any standard of national or international interest.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get...

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Nothing has a greater influence over your life than your thoughts rather they are negative or positive.

Steve’s head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. ” Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling...

Convincing someone to have sex is the same as manipulation and does not actually count as getting consent.

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we...

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting...

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful,...

(Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our...

His (Washington’s) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One – Chapter: Gun To Your Head

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...

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed...

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret–a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

Bling” is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence…the haves’ bleeding the have-nots’.

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...

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.