Quotes About Influence

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The Goal Is to Break Out, Not Blend In There are few times in your life when it isn't too melodramatic to say your destiny hangs on the impression you make.

Whoever authors your story authorizes your actions.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested because he had made no mention of photography, but had spoken the whole time about music. He calmed them by saying that what was valid for one was valid for another. —Henri Cartier-Bresson

On this view, then, Paul envisions an eschatological, end-of-time Antichrist, a man characterized by sin and destruction who will assume a place of influence and authority within the professing Church from which he will persecute God's people and foment a spiritual apostasy (cf. Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 3:1; 11:7-13; 20:7-10), all of which must come to pass before the Lord Jesus can return in fullness.

Whatever greatness there is in him (and it is there), whatever constructive influence he has exerted on the Christian church (and it has been incalculable), he himself would attribute to the sovereign grace of God working through yet another "clay jar" (2 Cor. 4:7).

I thought, out of respect to her, she should have been captain. We all saw her as our leader.

People often attain and hold power within an organization by downplaying their qualifications. "We gain status more readily, and more reliably, by acting just a little less deserving than we actually are.

the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the player who leads it.

The easiest way to lead, it turns out, is to serve.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him," he wrote. "Fail to honor others and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'we did this ourselves.'

The captain is the figure who holds sway over the dressing room by speaking to teammates as a peer, counseling them on and off the field, motivating them, challenging them, protecting them, resolving disputes, enforcing standards, inspiring fear when necessary, and above all setting a tone with words and deeds.

The single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself.

People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.

Listen," he said firmly. "If you hear nothing else, hear this. You work at the White House. There is no other room where a bunch of really smart people of sound judgment are getting together and figuring out what to do. It will be the scariest moment of your life when you fully internalize this: There is no other meeting. You're in the meeting. You are the meeting. If you have a concern, raise it.

Samantha Power

I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.