Quotes About Influence

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

You never know which people will affect your life.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

Your thoughts really, truly shape everything in your life that you feel and experience.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

You are the most powerful force in your life.

It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.