Quotes About Influence

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.

Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.

Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.

When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.

They'll forget all the rubbish when I've gone, and they'll remember the football. If only one person thinks I'm the best player in the world, that's good enough for me.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

While most people in the world probably haven't heard my name, Vladimir Putin thinks about my name on a very regular basis. He really dislikes me because I'm the guy responsible for the Magnitsky Act.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.