perceived authority Quotes

The reputation of power IS power.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

Power in Washington is simply the perception of power.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

What makes me angry is the idea that people would be going to a movie because of what I said about it. It makes me feel, I don't know, arrogant, self-important, self-aggrandizing, whatever. Like I'm being used.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.

If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.