Quotes About Influence

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Don't be scared to fly high, 'cause it will inspire others.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' had the left earring. So I started with the left earring, and then two years later, I got the other one pierced.

I grew up with, maybe not the best hip-hop in the world, but a lot of hip-hop. Will Smith was, like, my jam when I was, like, 9 or 10 years old.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys.

There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.

Will Smith has always been an inspiration for me.

Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Derek Luke and Leonardo DiCaprio inspired me the most. The rawness balanced with charisma that they all bring to the screen is awe inspiring.

If there's one person I looked up to obsessively, it was Will Smith. There wasn't anyone who looked like me on TV in England. 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' was my touchstone.

I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world - or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts - television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.

I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a par, or even above, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.

I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told.