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“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”

Children Problem Form Parent Influence Television Color Products Baby Expectations Motherhood Shade Ads Problem Solving Being A Parent

Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

“Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.”

World Has Beens America Fun Influence Fashion Products Majors Messages Contemporary Factors Advertising Consumers Disco Rediscovery

Author:Neil Bogart

“We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams

“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.”

May Persons Art Artist Decision Careers Mystery Influence Emotional Products Taste Art Is Educated Personal Taste

Author:Ernest West Basden

“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.”

“When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.”

Thinking Giving Persons Jobs Space Influence Products Persuasion Without You

Author:Robert Greene

“Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.”

Ideas Real Results Influence Style Products Development Diversity Cultural Diversity Interchange

Author:Tyler Cowen

“We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.”

People Ifs World Done Numbers Company Leader Influence Example Products Vote Responsible Refuse Enormous Global Warming Voters Plastic Wraps Wrapping

Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

People Giving Understanding Support Groups Influence Products Intellectual Give Me Prison Notebook Hegemony Influencing People

Author:Okky Madasari

“No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.”

Party Class Influence Movement Products Poison Capitalist Working Class Korea Factions Mould

Author:Kim Jong Il

“The aim is to influence customers to use your product on their own, again and again without relying on overt calls to action such as ads or promotions.”

Use Action Influence Products Aim Customers Ads Again And Again Promotion Call To Action

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.”

Way Ideas Done Process Creative Influence Products Approach Opening Instance Appropriate New Ways Improving Be Creative Opening Up

Author:Teresa Amabile

“Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.”

Giving Influence Products Accounts Google Preference Ranking

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and collaborators on the mind of the originator.”

Thinking Mind Creative Influence Products Genius Originals Historical Mentor Collaborators Historical Context

Book:Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds

Source: Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds