Quotes About Influence

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.

When you choose your attitude toward life, you can affect reality by making it better for you

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

Believing that your parents are always right.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

Your life informs your writing.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.