Quotes About Influence

To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That's the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.

The music that I really jive with is the ELO sound and maybe Wings as well.

Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?

I want to say sorry for abusing my position as an 'X Factor' winner because I owe everything to this thing.

For me, working with kids is one of my favorite ways to give back, and I refuse to let public opinion about whether I'm a 'winner' stop me from being a positive role model and mentor.

There is always going to be a Super Bowl winner, a league MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, great defenses and offenses. But I think to be part of real change - you talk about athletes like Muhammad Ali or Bill Russell - when you are able to do things that truly affect not just the game, but people everywhere, you find true meaning.

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.