Mary Wesley Quotes

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I'm usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, 'Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It's amazing,' I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for 'Stranger Things,' I couldn't resist. I had to watch it.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.