To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Power is the ability to get things done.
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