Sylvia Day Quotes

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

He who demands does not command.

I always remember I'm the monkey and he's the organ-grinder.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I like power and I like to use it.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

I do understand power, whatever else may be said about me. I know where to look for it and how to use it.

They must be governed by and be subordinate to you.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.