Brendan Behan Quotes

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

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

We convince by our presence.

Turning Intellect Into Influence

I underestimated the power of 'Diego.'

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

A word after a word after a word is power.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

Power is the ability to get things done.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.