Quotes About Influence

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

We're in a very unique time where noise equals, in a lot of people's perception, advocacy. And I fundamentally disagree with that.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.