Quotes About Influence

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth.

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.

In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.

For me, I look at it like if I'm playing basketball at the NBA or if I'm a principal at a school, which is something I would love to do when my career is over, I'm going to find ways to always bring Christ out in my life.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

My father, Subhash Chandra Arora, was the Principal at the ABJ School, and my mother was the headmistress.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more rock into country music, then Florida Georgia Line's gonna introduce more dance and more beat-driven stuff into country music. That's just how it's gonna go. So whatever influences you as a kid, you're gonna put in your music.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

Our democracy is as strong as we make it. Its founding principle is that we voice our opinions, and that we are willing to argue for what we believe in.

There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important to be around people who have been where you've been, people you look up to and who will keep you strong.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.