Quotes About Influence

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

My life was very Japanese.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

Being one of the angels is one of the few jobs that can totally change someone's life. For example, clients and designers who would have never given you a second look, now sit up and take notice.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.

Edward George Bulwer Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.