Quotes About Influence

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass away... but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process—picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

There's a reason I've been the top bitch in the game for more than twenty-five years.

MOST PEOPLE'S IDEA OF WEALTH RELIES SOLELY ON HOW OTHER PEOPLE SEE THEM.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

Perhaps there comes a time in your life when you lose the ability to command attention, when the world starts to ignore you because it no longer believes you can have much of an effect on it. With

Our ideas do not make the world, the world makes our ideas. Marx is therefore a materialist; Hegel, an idealist.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

For better or worse, we are all shaped by our parents.

Some friends—their eyes, their touch, their words—cannot be erased from our memory.

As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.

Some men leave a trail of legend behind them because they give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and mountain streams.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

As in other social matters, members of the Coors family amplify their views with money and organizational involvement.