Quotes About Influence

Jim Rohn has been my favorite speaker for many years. He has changed my life for the better and can change yours too.

I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Thanks to Bart Simpson, I have a pretty good life.

Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Your 'Belief Window' is how you perceive and understand everything in your life... It frames all your views and influences the actions you take, but it can also be wrong or limited.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.