Quotes About Influence

Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Not taking corporate money is a core part of the progressive message.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

I am not the progressive Koch brother.

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we were really big Rush freaks and Yes fans. We would listen to 'Close to the Edge' and 'Hemispheres' and '2112' - the more artsy, progressive stuff. Some of the guys were into King Crimson and Genesis and all that.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

I like to be very involved in any project that I am doing.

I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection that you actually have influenced people who are closest to you.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.