Quotes About Influence

Being from Arizona, the federal government is kind of a Slytherin.

Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.

If I follow someone, and I don't like their Twitter feed, I unfollow them and often have a changed opinion of the person.

To see my little brother Chandler outdoing me, it's great; I want to be able to cross-market and feed off his star power.

I definitely feed off of people.

I have a big personality, and people feed off that.

A lot of people feed off my energy. I have to keep that up. I can't just be loud one day and the next day saying nothing.

I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.

Twitter is a very powerful platform for adversarial feedback.

Leadership, to me, is about the ability to have people want to hear what you have to say. People want to be around you, people want to believe in what you tell them, and they feel good when they walk away from you about who they are and what they're doing.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

Working with Sofia Vergara and growing up with her was great because she was, you know, a really amazing, curvy role model for me. She helped me learn to accept the way I looked and love it and dress for it and feel good about myself.

If others think I am good with myself, they will, in turn, feel good about themselves.

Only when you feel good about yourself will others look up to you.

What we stand for is making people feel good about themselves. That's what we love about people looking up to us.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.

I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.