Tell stories to have
more influence over people — emotional connections have a far greater impact than rational ones, or even a combination of the rational and emotional.
When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him... Aron desired less than any man to
exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I was]..
Levy, who was a Democrat when he took office, said Suffolk Democratic chairman Richard Schaffer did not exert
much influence over the people he chose for top positions.
Throughout the 15th century and into the next, the Inca Empire exerted
enormous influence over the people and cultures of the Andean region — and it still captures our imagination today.
(More excerpts here from Manent's new book of interviews, Le Regard Politique — i.e., Seeing Things Politically) When I met Aron I was carried away with admiration for him... Aron desired less than any man to
exercise influence over people or to dominate a young man [such as I....
They did not have decisive power in the nation like the Pharisee but they did have
influence over the people.
The real reason why Stalin, Mao, and Hitler put down organized religion was because of it's
influence over people.
Employers with such ideas should be watched carefully and prevented from exercising
their influence over the people who are, in some degree, depending on them.
I think the Catholic Church is afraid that it will lose
its influence over people if it allows them to think for theselves.
Seems like a pretty ambiguous law, any foreign national that discusses politics with a US citizen is going to have
an influence over the person they are talking to, I don't see why campaign donations should be some sort of separate category in this regard, seems absurd to me.
You also discover you have
some influence over people, and can even read their minds by touching them.
Public personas have
influence over people and can easily encourage bad decisions and purchases.