Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
Stop worrying and start living.
Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.
Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.
Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
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. The rock stars have assimilated all kinds of philosophies, styles, histories, writings, and they throw out what they have gleaned from that.
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies. That's what's exciting about what we do, the fact that it's so global. It brings people together. People don't have to understand the language to laugh at actors. They're going to laugh even though they don't understand what they're saying. Cause they're seeing it.
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?
If I had the good fortune of having the ability to influence people all over the world every time I spoke, I would do my best to make sure people understood why the United States of America is special, and then I would suggest that everybody who wants to come here, "I don't blame you, fine and dandy, there's a legal mechanism for this. We're not denying people the right to come to our country. There's a legal way to do it." That's another thing people forget.
I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world.
I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.
Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.
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