Quotes About Influence

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.

I visited Eduardo Miura's ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

The power of an intention multiplies, depending upon how many people are thinking the same thought at the same time.

Who you spend time with is who you become.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!

One lesson to learn is that the press and the broadcasters are not neutral. And it seems we have to learn it each time there is a dispute: they are actually committed to one side.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.

We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.

all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.