Don't let anybody tell you that somehow you have no influence, that you can't change the system.
Sure, you have some influence over those unconscious processes directing you this way and that.
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Of course, being able to get a message out via Tweet is a little easier when you have serious influence.
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Because it's so hard in water and to maintain voice features, one of the other aspects of this is that when you dive down the pressure increases, the water pressure increases and actually changes these air filled cavities and you have that influence voice characteristics quite a lot.
It's not about the number of followers you have, it's about the amount of influence you have.
Remember, many of those whom you serve will have more power or influence than you do.
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Consider the amount of influence you have on your peers and your peers have on you.
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What kind of modifications to your website design and structure have you instituted to influence more people to do what you want them to?
But in order to win, in order to influence, you have to get in the ring.
Venables: What composers do you feel have the most significant influence on your work?
Who, after the zoo-like Casey Anthony trial, still believes being straight automatically makes you a good influence to have around children?
Because resources are tight in most companies, you have to learn how to influence people in your organization, often without formal authority such as a fancy title.
"In part that's testament to the level of influence that you have when you reach millions and millions of desktops" through ownership of the Microsoft Windows PC operating system, says Knook.
"If you have just a slight change in the ordering, particularly something that might bubble up from eighth to third or fourth on the screen where you're far more likely to see it, then just that simple change in ordering might have a huge influence on what you click on".
You want to start early so you can guide your children and have some influence over their decisions.
These laws do not care who peddles influence, how many lobbyists you have or how big your corporate bankroll is.
They want to know that you have their backs and that you can exercise your influence to get them a voice at the table while making their jobs much more meaningful and purposeful.
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You have to figure out what they are and how to influence them.
I'll leave it to you to decide which of the above might have the greatest influence on a Conservative-led government but the claims have been flooding in today after the defence secretary's announcement about Army cuts.
"If you have to win this state, and if this is the state the Democratic Party set up as the example of the influence of Hispanic voters in the party, you have to be able to show you can win Hispanic support, " said Adam Segal of the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins University.
Have you ever known any non-flight-related factors to influence decisions?
Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you can hear the influence of hip-hop and rap, which have become the lingua franca of Afro-Latinos, African-Americans and just about anyone under the age of 25 in the rest of the world.
Successful entrepreneurs, like Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Casey Sheahan of Patagonia, have long since realized that influence is no longer something that you do to someone to get what you want, but requires listening and relationship building to do what they want, with a win-win outcome.
"You can get constituencies that have a lot more voting and political power than their commercial influence, " Dooley says.
The truth is that they have much more influence and power at the beginning of your tenure than you do.
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Last month I introduced you to Agawi co-founder Peter Relan, and detailed the potential influence Agawi and Microsoft could have on the cloud gaming space.
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One of the principles that allows you to have such confidence in the work of the IGs is their ability to render opinions independent of outside influence.
Startups like Quora and Klout have their own algorithms but you can bet that both major parties are investing in this new-age influence peddling (with Democrats way ahead so far).
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Mr. GEORGE CLOONEY (Actor): We did what all of you do, which is we looked around and we said, okay, who are the players that actually have influence with the government of Khartoum?
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