Quotes About Influence

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

You will be remembered in life only for your passions!

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

I don't want to blame it on not having a father figure in my life, but that has a lot to do with it too.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?