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• NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Mean, Skills

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• That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Law, Land

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.56, Aristotle

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• A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

  Paul Volcker

  Government, Swings, Important

  Paul A. Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten (1992). “Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership”, Crown

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• The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

  John Marshall

  Party, Political, United States

  John Marshall (1845). “The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Comp. Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from Original Papers Bequeathed to Him by His Deceased Relative”, p.252

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• I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

  Landon Donovan

  Roles, Want, Consistently

  "Donovan candidly discusses future, retirement in wide-ranging Q&A". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. May 23, 2012.

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• If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Strong, Children

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• The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

  Maeve Binchy

  Book, Writing, Long

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• A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Territory, Matter

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Effectiveness, Rise Above, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

  John C. Maxwell

  Loyalty, Leader, Groups

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

  Mario Benedetti

  Country, Real, Latin

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• I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Everyday Things, Things In Life, Ideas

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• We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Evil, Laughing

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.139, Bantam

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• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock n roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Rocks, Order

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• People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

  Corey Taylor

  People, Hunters, Beats

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.

  Corey Taylor

  Energy, Ears, Metallica

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

  Max Weber

  Mean, Distribution Of Power, Groups

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.78, Routledge

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• A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

  Daniel Boulud

  Movement, Trends, Today

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• Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Talking, People

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

  Robert Fogel

  President, Credit, Want

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.

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• Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.

  Peter Senge

  World, Action, Assumption

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• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Thomas Reid

  Law, Facts, Fixed

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.66, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I'd have to say Steven Gerrard has been the biggest influence in my career so far. I watched him when I was younger and then to go and play and train with him every day is massive for me, and still is now.

  Jordan Henderson

  Play, Careers, Stills

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• For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.

  Edgar Cayce

  Angel, Men, Creative

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• Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

  Robin Sharma

  Team, Inspiration, Passion

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