Quotes About Influence

When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say, 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.

My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's a champion.

And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the Russian domestic environment.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or, to put it another way, you're at risk, and the people with you are at risk.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

Forcing some countries to accept democracy is something that should not be done.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

It seems like everybody is forcing me to run for president.

People have asked me, 'Is it about Apple or is it about Jobs?' and I say it's about how a man becomes his company and the company becomes the man. That has only happened a few times, like it happened with Ford, I think, they became inextricably linked together.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

The only way you can make change is by moving someone, making them laugh, making them cry. But art has to be at the forefront of change.

My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.

It's important to allow people to affect you. If we kept that at the forefront of our minds, maybe we wouldn't be as divided as we are.

I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.

U.S. energy policy is about far more than jobs and the economy. It is a critical component of our foreign policy.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

First and foremost, I'm fans of the people I'm collaborating with. And collaborations expand who you are.