Quotes About Influence

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

You're scared of what you can't control

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

Words matter, words have import.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.