Quotes About Influence

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

People will forget me pretty quick.

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.

China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

I love making a difference, and doing it quickly.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.

Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations. These men and women are unelected and tend to shun the publicity hogged by the politicians with whom they co-exist. They are the world's central bankers.

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.