Quotes About Influence

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Life doesn't come at you. It comes from you.

I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!