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“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.”

Way Giving Mind Desire Turns Cases Influence Information Exercise Capable Stronger One Way Instruction Efficient Desirable Impart Makes You Stronger Knowledge And Information

Book:The Optimist Creed

Source: The Optimist Creed

“I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.”

Practice Influence Information Resources Impact Patient Medical

Author:Samuel Wilson

“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”

People Want Desire Choices Culture Sex Influence Media Information Safe Computer Flow Investment Consumers Corporate Range Acquisition Nuance Convergence

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.”

Ifs Use Class Influence Information Advantage Independent Structure Oppression Empires Manipulation Privileged Dominance Retaining Dissemination

Book:The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel

Source: The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel

“The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.”

World Two Character Influence Media Information Mom Bears Dad Circles Flight Experts Electric Sage Earnest Mom And Dad

Book:The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects

“Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.”

People Together Technology Influence Information Providing Information Technology

Author:Dan Quayle

“[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy”

Self Influence Effects Information Performances Factors Efficacy Self Efficacy Intervening

Author:Albert Bandura

“The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.”

Doe Hands Lying Leader Happened Influence Information Theory Importance Reasoning Peculiar Revolt Second Hand

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.”

People May Children Might Able Parent Technology Support Groups Influence Information Birth Easier Drug Medical Defects Support Groups Birth Defects

Author:Steve Jobs

“And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.”