Quotes About Influence

A person's name is a fate-conjuring incantation.

First we form habits, then they form us.

Por dios, ¿por qué toda la gente quiere ser Paris Hilton y nadie quiere ser Spider Man?

Out time has come to change the world, one person at a time

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, But because it never forgot what it could do. —NAOMI SHIHAB NYE I was recently in San Francisco

The church is meant to lead the world in hearing God's voice and shaping culture.

Wherever church government is mingled with ambition, we find leaders who value members primarily for how they contribute to the church's vision.

Healthy people who do not have a need to control anyone make the best leaders.

In your position as leader, your actions are amplified; it's as if you are talking through a bullhorn every time you communicate with your employees. They hear your criticism more loudly than you mean it, and they hear your praise and thanks more loudly than it sounds to you. Use your bullhorn wisely.

You are the spark that sets others on fire when you initiate.

All leadership begins with self-mastery. You can't lead others until you can first lead yourself.

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

Gandhi saw that the power of any tyrant depends entirely on people being willing to obey.

Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically.

American pop culture – supposedly the most powerful and influential force on the planet – has just surrendered to a one-man psycho-state economic basket-case that starves its own population.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know.

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote ''Huckleberry Finn'' in Hartford. Recently scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?

Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me . . .

She doesn't try to have dignity or refinement. She wants to affect men by what she says, not what she doesn't say.

history, as they say, will always be written by the victors.