Quotes About Influence

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Your life is your message.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

God, I had great people in my life.

If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.