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Exert Quotes

How pressure and influence actually work.

These quotes explore what it means to apply force, whether restrictive monetary policy pushing costs upward or communities asserting their own agency in self-definition. Pair them with Control quotes for related ideas.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

Quotes by Ada Lovelace

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

Quotes by Abdurrahman Wahid

White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one...

Quotes by Yance Ford

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

Quotes by Xherdan Shaqiri

Believe Quotes

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Congress leaders did not exert pressure on me to contest from Bengaluru South. But I told them categorically that there is no question of contesting from any other constituency except Mandya because of the bonding my family has with the...

Quotes by Sumalatha

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Quotes by Stanley Bing

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

Quotes by Rosemarie DeWitt

Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial...

Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

Change Quotes

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Quotes by Richard Perle

In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.

Quotes by Rebecca Traister

The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark...

Quotes by Priyamvada Natarajan

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Quotes by Philip Zimbardo

We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

Quotes by Mohammad bin Salman

Control Quotes

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon...

Quotes by Max von Laue

Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - primarily the trend in interest rates and Federal Reserve policy - is the dominant factor in determining the stock market's major direction.

Quotes by Martin Zweig

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Quotes by Martin Donovan

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Quotes by Li Keqiang

The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

Quotes by Lee Gutkind

Good Quotes

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Quotes by Jordan Peterson

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of pressure do these quotes cover?
They range from economic forces, like rate hikes pushing costs upward, to personal and social pressure, such as a call to push back against wealthy interests.
Is there a quote about limited influence?
Yes, one speaker admits they cannot shape outcomes much at their club, pointing to a shortage of talent around them as the reason.
Do any quotes discuss self-determination?
Yes, one line discusses how communities can define themselves on their own terms, framing that kind of influence as a form of self-representation.
Is this page focused on economics?
Partly. One quote ties tighter monetary policy to rising costs, but the collection also covers personal and organizational influence more broadly.
What related quotes should I check out next?
Try Control quotes for more on managing influence and power.

Others admit the limits of influence, like a manager unable to shape a squad missing real quality around him. Continue with Change or Good quotes.